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To: patlin
A person who has applied for naturalization shall, in order to be and before being admitted to citizenship

Totally irrelevant. Cruz did not apply for naturalization. He was not naturalized. He was a citizen at birth, which is synonymous with natural born citzen (unless you can show otherwise, which I doubt).

83 posted on 01/23/2016 11:39:54 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Gil4

Did or did not Cruz go before a judge in 2014 and formally renounce his Canadian citizenship that he had from birth?

The law states that one who must renounce a foreign citizenship because they were born of a foreign parent in the country of the foreign parent, that person is a naturalized citizen. I have read the Canadian citizenship laws of 1970 and in 1970, Canada did not grant citizenship to babies born in the country unless, 1) one of the parents was a Canadian, 2) both of the parents were Canadian & 3) the parents had applied and were granted permanent legal resident status because they had begun the process of becoming Canadian citizens.

Cruz Sr. was a Canadian citizen when the family relocated back to the United States. He remained a Canadian citizen until 2005. So for Constitutional purposes, Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz was a natural born Canadian citizen at birth. One can not be natural born of 2 countries and Cruz legally admitted he was a natural born Canadian when he formally & legally renounced his foreign citizenship in 2014.


96 posted on 01/24/2016 5:15:59 PM PST by patlin ("Knowledge is a powerful source that is 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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