The whole “Cruz’s parents were alcoholics” smells to high heaven. Raphael Sr had a well established & lucrative business in Canada, he and his wife purchased a home, therefore, proof of their legal permanent residence status and then one day, out of the cold, in an instant, the business is sold and Raphael Sr leaves Canada, however, not as a ‘legal resident’, but as a full fledged Canadian citizen.
I have lived with alcoholic family members around me all my life and this is NOT how an alcoholic behaves. Unless there is a family member who is able to step in and take control of finances such as my grandmother did, there would have been no business to sell. Nope, this all smells like bull$hit to me. One time Cruz Jr says BOTH his parents had drinking problems and then the next time he claims that only his father was the drunk. Which is it? I suspect neither, I suspect it is nothing but the same political bull$hit that brought us the current usurper in chief, ... follow the money!!! Sr had the SAME financial backers as Jr does today!!!
By the 1790 law, this would have been a real sticky wicket.
The mother was a citizen, but the father had not become a citizen, had lived here for a while, but then had moved to Canada and apparently immediately applied for Canadian citizenship, since he had it by 1973 and it takes a while to obtain it.
So, he would have been the child of a US citizen and a Canadian resident, even though that man had resided in the US prior to Cruz’s conception. I think George Washington would have considered Cruz Jr. not to be a US citizen by the 1790 law, but it’s got some odd details and I could be wrong.