for the U.S. Senate in 2012 when Texans elected him.
Sure, we all believe that.
. [Let's unpack that a bit]
"....But look closer at the bolder portion. It never says that the father has to be a citizen of the United States at the time the child is born. All it says is that citizenship "shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States." It is indisputable that Rafael Cruz was in the United States for a period of time prior to both Ted's birth and his marriage to native born American citizen Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson in 1969. He fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, arriving in Texas. There, he attended the University of Texas, graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1961. He even married his first wife there, Julia Ann Garza, in 1959. They later divorced, but not before he had two daughters with her. He was also granted political asylum in 1961 upon his graduation from UT."....
” It never says that the father has to be a citizen of the United States at the time the child is born. “
What is “IT”? I am referring to the United States Constitution which is the “supreme” law of the land. No laws, such as immigration laws, change the “natural born citizen” eligibility clause. This would take a constitutional amendment.
This clause is explained in Vattel’s Law of Nations, Book 1, pages 212-215.