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Cruz probably didnâ€™t get the CRBA (birth certificate) until he got a passport for that high school trip. I donâ€™t see a reason for a â€˜70â€™s-80â€™s kid needing a second birth certificate for anything else. Mom just used the Canadian one would be my guess. I assume that fact is why he is hiding the CRBA info.

Yes. Sadly, this does speak to his character.

It makes him closer to Barack Obama in terms of honesty about his past. Sad. Obama never was a legit citizen ever. Poor Cruz is just a victim of his mom not getting the documentation early on. He was entitled to be American at birth.

He should have been very honest and showed us his CRBA from when he was 16 and explained the situation. He is hiding it because it just isn’t good optics to have a President who wasn’t officially American until he was 16.

"He should have been very honest and showed us his CRBA from when he was 16 and explained the situation. He is hiding it because it just isn't good optics to have a President who wasn't officially American until he was 16.

I never had a Birth Certificate until I was 62. Does that mean I wasn't officially born until then?

A CRBA is not a required document to obtain a Passport, it is the underlying documents that make up a CRBA which are required' "The child's parents may choose to apply for a U.S. passport for the child at the same time that they apply for a CRBA. Parents may also choose to apply only for a U.S. passport for the child. Like a CRBA, a full validity, unexpired U.S. passport is proof of U.S. citizenship." https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/events-and-records/birth.html