“I’m not saying Cruz wouldn’t have made it in 1790 but his Cuban father giving up his us resident status in canada would have been a complicated legal issue.”
Cruz’s father was a Canadian citizen when he was born.
I’ve not seen dates on that, so I’m not willing to go there. By my dates, Cruz senior left New Orleans in 1969 to go to Canada. Cruz was born at the end of December in 1970. That is not enough time to become a Canadian citizen.