Posted on 06/11/2014 11:18:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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But what won't prevent Cruz from becoming president is his place of birth. Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada, while his parents were living there. His father is now an American citizen, but was not at the time; his mother, however, was born in the United States.
Helpfully, the Congressional Research Service gathered all of the information relevant to Cruz's case a few years ago, at the height (nadir?) of Obama birtherism. In short, the Constitution says that the president must be a natural-born citizen. "The weight of scholarly legal and historical opinion appears to support the notion that 'natural born Citizen' means one who is entitled under the Constitution or laws of the United States to U.S. citizenship 'at birth' or 'by birth,' including any child born 'in' the United States, the children of United States citizens born abroad, and those born abroad of one citizen parents who has met U.S. residency requirements," the CRS's Jack Maskell wrote. So in short: Cruz is a citizen; Cruz is not naturalized; therefore Cruz is a natural-born citizen, and in any case his mother is a citizen. You can read the CRS memo at bottom; here's a much longer and more detailed 2011 version.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
LOL, post 12 didn’t mention Cruz, your song and dance routine seems to be to keep correcting people about America and American.
I just wonder how many Cruz threads are you going to use that on?
“his mother was only living in Canada because she was working at the US Embassy there. “
The us embassy is also us soil too.....
So there is that too.
Thankyou for posting this, Jim. I am so sick and tired of those dismissing Cruz! He is Reagan. He has never compromised. He stands tall and is exactly the fighter we need in 2016!
It doesn’t look like she worked at the Embassy, but I did learn that he grew up in the same exact neighborhood as I did.
Darragh, second-youngest of 17 children, grew up in an Irish-Italian family in Wilmington, Del. She was the first in her family to go to college, graduating from Rice University with a math degree, and she worked in Houston as a computer programmer at Shell Oil.
She was independent and four years older than Rafael Cruz, who had two daughters by a previous marriage when he met Darragh. The girls spent summers with the young couple.
Ted Cruz was born three days before Christmas in 1970 in the Canadian oil town of Calgary, where his parents’ newly launched seismic-data business had taken them.
Of his days in Alberta, he remembers only cold weather. It was later he learned that when he was 3 and living there, his parents separated. Rafael Cruz returned to Houston. About six months later, Darragh followed, though they remained estranged.
Ted recalled that one day, a friend of Rafael’s invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church in the northwest Houston suburb of Spring Branch.
Most of that is a quote from this article.
Canada is not in America.
It is in The America’s.
No one wants to immigrate to The Americas.
Everyone wants to make it to America...
No one wants to be like The Americas
Everyone wants to be like America....
No one wants what The Americas make...
Everyone wants to wear Levis, Have a Coke and a Smile, Eat at McDonalds and enjoy our freedoms and liberty.
Mexico Does not posses American ideals.
Argentina does not possess American ideals.
Cuba does not possess American ideals.
Can-uh-Duh is America lite...Ehhh
Only the United States is America.
And only in America can a black boy grow up and become a white woman.
Baseball is an American sport.
Soccer sucks.
The NBA is American...
Being like Mike is American...
Being like Fidel is not.
The “Just Do it” spirit is uniquely American.
Canadians aren’t Americans and would be highly insulted to be called such.
Mexico is a basket case, as are it’s southern neighbors like Guatemala, Honduras and other countries.
No one wants to fight to get to Cuba or Venezuela.
Thousands of children crossed the border from Mexico to America just today.
A better life awaits you in America but, not in Haiti. That place blows....
America has Cowboys. Yippee Kye Yeah mthrfkr...Hans is dead.
The countries south of America have Vaqueros. That ain’t sexy.
America plays Cowboys and Indians(substitute any others if you care. We play that too)
America elects cowboys to be President.
America invented Texas Hold em. Not the new immigration game but, the kind of card game even James Bond Plays for big money, while enjoying an American drink; The Martini
America has a stirring and kick ass National Anthem.
America has Elvis. He rocks.
America the Beautiful, from sea to shining sea.
America saves the worlds collective ass all day long.
Heck, America will even beat someone down because we like a good fight and hate bullies.
America “The Shining City on the Hill”.
America kicked a major bully’s buttocks, twice.
America will go break things to end the argument, put your sorry azz country back together and never ask for anything in return.
America shows up whenever disaster befalls another nation. WE don’t just show up, we’re firstest and bestest.
America gives til it hurts.
America seeks not further territory but, if we help you, only a little land for fallen men.
America gave the world D-day.
The world is better for America in it.
No one wants to trade in Peso’s, Rubles or the Euro.
American green backs rule the world and every country I have ever been to loves to take our loot but, won’t take the loot of a neighboring country I just came from...weird.
The world loves America and can easily find it on a map.
If you can’t make it in America, you can’t make it anywhere...
Sure, some countries have bullfighting but, they’re sissies.
Americans ride em til we’re done...
Coming to America! Neil Diamond or Eddie Murphy...
America has Rocky with James Brown belting out “Living in America!”
That is good enough for me.
>>imminently qualified
He will be qualified soon?
There is just one thing in this article. Mantles come from above. One doesn’t have to pick one off the floor.
Every thing this man says comes from the heart. He loves his country and it’s citizens.
He is an expert on the Constitution. A scholar. And a fighter! Cruz is the man we must unite behind. He is the only one who will undo Obama’s atrocities! No weasel words. He flat out will take no bs from the progressives. I will look forward to hearing this POTUS every single day. It’s been a long time coming.
A birther thread? Really? What is the point of posting this here? Are you actually looking for dissent or opposing views from Constitutional Conservatives or are you just looking to ban them?
Free Republic is a site for Conservative activism and not a liberal debating society as the boss has repeatedly stated. Senator Ted Cruz's eligibility for POTUS has long been a settled issue. He's 100% American and more authentically Texan than just about anyone short of Davey Crockett and Sam Houston. If it's not our Sarah taking the oath of office in January 2017, it will be Ted Cruz. Count on it.
The trolls have been warned. Free Republic is Cruz Country.
ya think? LOL
How many threads you hijack and bash libertarians on for $500 , Alex
ding ding ding - Daily Double !!!
Imagine for a moment that the year is 1815. A woman who is a U.S. citizen by birth to two other citizens travels to Great Britain, where she then weds the ruling King of Great Britain and gives birth to the King's first son.
Would that son, the heir to the British throne, then be a "natural born citizen" of the U.S. and be eligible for the Presidency?
I can't imagine a case of more questionable loyalty and yet there are those on this thread who would believe that our Founders would have no problem with this.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the children of persons duly naturalized, dwelling within the United States, and being under the age of twenty-one years, at the time of such naturalization; and the children of citizens of the United States, born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, shall be considered as citizens of the United States: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have never been resident in the United States: Provided also, That no person heretofore proscribed by any state, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain, during the late war, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid, without the consent of the legislature of the state, in which such person was proscribed.
What gets me is no one seems to notice the double standard that the feds (and the subsequent mouthpieces for the administrative organ) are tossing out.
According to them, a child born here of foreign parents is automatically a 'citizen of the United States' at birth, but a child born to a US citizen in a foreign country is NOT a citizen of THAT country, but ALSO a citizen of the united states at birth. Talk about having your cake and eating it too!
Why don't they just go ahead and proclaim everyone in the world a citizen of the united states since the concept of national sovereignty is so meaningless to them?
It's late. Do you interpret this to mean that the heir to the throne is or is not eligible to be President as described in my hypothetical?
What you have cited is specifically a "naturalization" act of Congress and thus has no authority to lessen a Constitutional restriction.
What I’m saying is that in the era of the revolution, that would never have happened.
Today, if you marry a princess of England, then your child will be a citizen at birth of the USA, provided you have met the residency requirements.
Clearly not: " Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons, whose fathers have never been resident in the United States..." The king was never a resident of the United States.
What you have cited is specifically a "naturalization" act of Congress and thus has no authority to lessen a Constitutional restriction.
Congress has the Constitutional power to pass uniform rules of naturalization. As part of that, wouldn't you agree would be the responsibility to identify those who don't need to be naturalized? In other words, define natural born citizens?
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