Cruz was born in Canada and is a natural born citizen of Canada. So how can he be a NBC of two countries?
Thank you Lady. Seems darn simple to me too. I said he was either an anchor baby to Canada or a natural born Canadian citizen, at birth. No wonder.
Mom had to apply for papers to instate Ted as an American citizen, I read that. Mom and Dad were Canadian citizens, with voting privileges.
“Cruz was born in Canada and is a natural born citizen of Canada. So how can he be a NBC of two countries?”
Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen of any nation.
Ted Cruz was a native born citizen of Canada. Canadian law does not confer Canadian citizenship on the child of two alien citizens, unless one or both of the alien citizens have been approved as official Permanent Residents of Canada, and such Canadian citizenship at birth is naturalized at birth Canadian citizenship.
Ted Cruz was born with eligibility to adopt naturalized Cuban citizenship, due to his father’s Cuban citizenship.
Ted Cruz was born with eligibility to adopt naturalized U.S. citizenship, due to his mother’s purported U.S. citizenship. Ted Cruz is a naturalized U.S. citizen by the authority of the Naturalization Act of 1952.
Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen of any nation, because he was native born in Canada with alien parents, and was born abroad and could only acquire citizenship by naturalization for Cuban and U.S. citizenship. Naturalization precludes any possibility of being a natural born citizen. No child born abroad without diplomatic immunity can be a natural born citizen.
Canada has its concept of NBC. And the US its. The two are independent.
It would be a violation of US sovereignty for the US to allow Canada's concept of NBC to have any influence over that of the US.
I mean, what if Foxy Lady were running, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, becoming aware of an imminent US political hazard, suddenly made her a citizen of the Islamic State? Should al-Baghdadi's declaration have any legal bearing on Foxy Lady's eligibility?