Foreign father, born outside US. He's a US citizen.
Were you born here to US citizen parents?
James Madison settled the issue during his presidency when he clarified that children born to a US Parent on ship or abroad were considered natural born because although their ‘residence’ may be abroad their ‘domicile’ was registered in the US.
For example,
A child born in France to a US Ambassador was considered Natural Born if the Ambassador retained a ‘domicile’ in the US.
There is a legal distinction betweem ‘residence’ and ‘domicile’.
At the time of the original Constitution, women were not allowed to vote and a women’s citizenship did not matter as long as she was married or a common law wife of a US Citizen.
During America’s colonial era and its beginning as a republic, many American men married women of Indian tribes because women were scarce and children were needed.
When a woman would marry an American man, a US Citizen, it was implicit that here status was the same as her husband’s. If he traveled abroad with her and she was pregnant, it was not uncommon that she would give birth on a ship. The birth would be recorded in the Captain’s records and used as proof to confer citizenship on the child. Same if the child was born after reaching landfall.
Ted Cruz’ parents, especially his mother worked in Canada but maintained her ‘domicile’ in the USA as evidenced by her paying US taxes while working abroad. Her husband’s status folds in with her status and his US Naturalization and US Citizenship boosts his intention to be an American faithful to the US flag.
The entire provision in the US Constitution regarding the President to be a Natural Born Citizen was prompted by a letter from Jon Jay to General George Washington that the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army must be ensured to be loyal with allegiance only to the United States.
The issues are not where one is born, whether it be in a US Territory, or abroad while working and paying US taxes, or whether one parent was not natural born. The issues are FAITH. LOYALTY AND ALLEGIANCE.
The reason Obama was challenged on his birth was not so much as to the scant and hidden facts of his birth (although they are scandalous), as they were to the character of his ALLEGIANCE AND LOYALTY to the United States.
Ted Cruz is faithful to the United States, and has demonstrated ample loyalty and allegiance to the United States.
His mother was born in the United States, never once taking citizenship of any other country, his father became a Naturalized Citizen of the United States and Ted was born to his American mother while she was working abroad keeping her domicile in the United States.
He is eligible.