“For all other purposes than the qualifications for president, there is no real difference. A naturalized citizen has been made as if he were natural born, with all attendant privileges and immunities.”
No, that is incorrect. A person acquiring U.S. citizenship by the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Act is liable to the revocation of that grant of U.S. citizenship under the stated conditions of the statute, whereas an actual natural born citizen is born with and not granted at birth with U.S. citizenship. This type of difference is traditional in U.S. and British law ever since the English Naturalization Act of 1541. in other wrods, being “considered as” a natural born subject or as a natural born citizen does not accord the naturalized at birth citizen the same rights and immunities as an actual natural born citizen.
According to the 14th Amendment, all citizens have equal rights and immunities.
Regardless of the circumstances of their birth or origin.
I stand corrected.
Under the controlling statute under which Cruz was presumably granted citizenship, the 1952 Immigration and Naturalization Act, that citizenship was conditional.
The individual was required to fulfill certain requirements as a young adult, or lose their citizenship. Primarily residence requirements in the United States.