Fox News (2014): Cruz Ineligible due to Canadian Birth

Twitter/Fox News Clip ^ | 01/18/2016 | Fox

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Short clip (17 seconds) at link above. Fox was discussing potential Presidential candidates. Discusses Rubio then brings up Cruz, but then dismisses due to not being a natural born citizen.

[VerySadAmerican]

If Texas was to go it’s own way the main requirement I would want to be eligible for president is they can’t have been born any state that was blue the last election.

[Toddsterpatriot]

There was no ambiguity to the framers what natural born means...

Except for leaving out the actual defining characteristics.

Congress has not dared to mess with 'natural born' yet.

Except for all the laws that define naturalization and when it is and isn't needed to be a citizen.

'Natural born' is a birthright..

Exactly. Being born to an American parent is usually all it takes.

[Just mythoughts]

Hey, you vote for whom ever suits your standards. I do not know who will be on the primary ballot in Missouri...

[Toddsterpatriot]

I will.

[thirst4truth]

So I as a American Mom, have a baby in Aruba on vacation, the baby is Aruban forever? It is not an American citizen because I as an American born mother cannot transfer my citizenship to my own child no matter where he is born? Absurd!

[Just mythoughts]

Citizenship is not the question... “Natural born” requires both parents be US citizens. Cruz was not born to a US citizen father... Thus NOT natural born...but he is a naturalized citizen.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Thus NOT natural born...but he is a naturalized citizen.

If only you could prove he was naturalized, you'd have a point.

[Yosemitest]

WRONG !

[Yosemitest]

" ... Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)

Looks like none of those work since Cruz's father was not a US citizen or national."

WRONG !

FACT: Cruz’s father’s Cuban nationality at the time of Cruz’s birth, is irrelevant, according to the law at that time,
just so long as he was a LEGAL Immigrant at the time of Ted Cruz's birth,
AND both of Ted Cruz's parents were legally married to each other.

What are the rules for people born between December 23, 1952 and November 13, 1986?

The 14th Amendment IS a part of the U.S. Constitution and states in SECTION 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
So, under that power to legislate, Congress legislated and the President signed into law:
When ONE parent was a US citizen and the other a foreign national,
the US citizen parent must have resided in the US for a total of 10 years prior to the birth of the child,
with five of the years after the age of 14.

... While there were initially rules regarding what the child must do to retain citizenship,
amendments since 1952 HAVE ELIMINATED THESE REQUIREMENTS.

When Ted Cruz was born, his parents were "IN WEDLOCK".

They married, moved to Calgary, Alberta, and in late 1970 had their first and only child, Rafael Edward Cruz.
Cruz was born on December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where his parents, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz.

Cruz's mother was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, in a family of three quarters Irish and one quarter Italian descent.
Eleanor Darragh, mother of Ted Cruz, was raised in Delaware, graduated from a Catholic High School (1952) in the U.S., as well as Rice University (1956),
so clearly she meets the residency requirements.

Source

In 1957, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz (Ted Cruz's father) decided to get out of Cuba by applying to the University of Texas.
Upon being admitted, he adds, he got a four-year student visa at the U.S. Consulate in Havana.

"Since he liked to eat seven days a week, he worked seven days a week, and he paid his way through the University of Texas," Ted Cruz says of his father, "and then ended up getting a job and eventually going on to start a small business and to work towards the American dream."

Only he did that in Canada, where Ted was born.
His father went there after having earlier obtained political asylum in the U.S. when his student visa ran out.
He then got a green card, he says, and married Ted's mother, an American citizen.
The two of them moved to Canada to work in the oil industry.

"I worked in Canada for eight years," Rafael Cruz says. "And while I was in Canada, I became a Canadian citizen."

The elder Cruz says he renounced his Canadian citizenship when he finally became a U.S. citizen in 2005 —
48 years after leaving Cuba.
Why did he take so long to do it?
"I don't know. I guess laziness, or — I don't know," he says.

So there is the law for the time Ted Cruz was born,
AND HOW Ted Cruz's PARENTS fulfilled ALL those requirements of the law that time, for Ted Cruz to be a "Natural Born Citizen".
Ted Cruz did NOT NEED a Court and a Judge to "Nationalize" him.

“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.
... The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president.
Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.

[bushpilot2]

Where’s Ted Cruz ‘Certificate of Birth Abroad” it’s formal proof US citizenship.

Cruz campaign said his mother petitioned US Consulate.

Where’s the document? A Canadian birth certificate does not prove US citizenship.

[Yosemitest]

"Where’s Ted Cruz ‘Certificate of Birth Abroad” it’s formal proof US citizenship.."

I ask someone before, "What was the first year that the FS-240 were require/issued at the time of birth?"
Cboldt answered:

... the answer was prefaced with a note that
the form isn't and wasn't "required"
in order for citizenship to attach.

The whole point is in the "Naturalization", or the laws defining it.
What is the root word of "Naturalization" ?

"Naturalize" !

Not only could the Founding Father define "natural born citizen", BUT ... THE FOUNDING FATHERS DID DEFINE IT !
And you ARE refusing the definition of "natural born citizen" CLEARLY DEFINED by our FOUNDING FATHERS !

Ted Cruz's PARENTS fulfilled ALL those requirements of the law that time, for Ted Cruz to be a "Natural Born Citizen".
Ted Cruz did NOT NEED a Court and a Judge to "Nationalize" him.

“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.
... The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president.
Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.

"Natural Born Citizen" was defined for the United States, BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS !

The Naturalization Act of 1790, let's read it !

United States Congress, "An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" (March 26, 1790).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That any Alien being a free white person,
who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years,
may be admitted to become a citizen thereof on application to any common law Court of record in any one of the States
wherein he shall have resided for the term of one year at least,
and making proof to the satisfaction of such Court  that
he is a person of good character,
and taking the oath or affirmation prescribed by law
to support the Constitution of the United States,
which Oath or Affirmation such Court shall administer,
and the Clerk of such Court shall record such Application, and the proceedings thereon;
and thereupon such person shall be considered as a Citizen of the United States. 


And the children of such person so naturalized,
dwelling within the United States,
being under the age of twenty one years at the time of such naturalization,
shall also be considered as citizens of the United States. 

And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States,
shall be considered as natural born Citizens: 
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 States, shall be admitted a citizen as aforesaid,
except by an Act of the Legislature of the State in which such person was proscribed.

[Lazamataz]

"You REALLY SHOULD go back and read the FOUNDING FATHERS' DEFINITION OF "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN" !"

Been there, done that. You are delusional and very arrogant.

Just making friends whereever you go, huh?