“Current Hawaiian US Senator Mazie Hirono was born to a US citizen mother and a foreign father in a foreign land.”
There is a significant difference between Senator Hirono’s and Senator Cruz’s sitiuations. In Hinoro”s case her mother left the US in 1939 at the age of 15 years. She was too young to pass US citizenship on to her daughter. So Senator Hinoro was born only a Japanese citizen and had to naturalize to become an American citizen.
Senator Cruz’s mother was 32 years old when she moved to Canada and was well past the residence requirements of US immigration law. She passed US citizenship to her son at birth. Cruz was born with both US and Canadian citizenship and did not have to naturalize.
The issue is whether or not his mother took Canadian citizenship, in which case, she would have had to renounce US citizenship since Canada did not, at that time, recognize dual citizenships. If she renounced and then gave birth, Cruz would not have had US citizenship passed to him.
Neither Canada, nor the USA, allowed dual citizenship when Ted was born. Ted's Canadian birth certificate says he was a Canadian citizen at birth.
Aside from this inconvenient fact, records show Ted's mother had naturalized as a Canadian citizen prior to his birth, thereby renouncing her US citizenship. She had no US citizenship to pass to Ted at the time of his birth.
Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen of Canada. He is not a natural born citizen of the USA, and may not even be a citizen of the US.
I know the Cruzlims think they are being cute by supporting a candidate that is clearly not eligible, just as the Democrats thought they were cute supporting the Kenyan usurper, and all of them know and knew that their candidate was not eligible for the office of president of the USA.
However, this sort of issue caused oceans of spilled blood in Europe for centuries. It can do the same here. Is this what these idiots really want?
The Framers of the Constitution were not ‘natural born citizens’ having been born on American Soil, so they enacted ‘citizenship’ for themselves so when their children were born on American Soil, they were ‘natural born citizens’...
The 14th Amendment was written for the when the slaves were freed: they would be granted ‘citizenship’ to America and when their children were born on American Soil, they would be ‘natural born Citizens’ on American Soil...
The progression of citizenship goes from the Father to the wife when he marries her, she takes his name, and then when the children are born, they take his name...
If this was not the case at hand, then Cruz’s last name would not be Cruz, it would be Darrugh or Wilson...but Ted Cruz’s name came from his Father hence Cruz...
You can argue anyway you want, but the law is the law, and even though a lot of us tried to prevent obuma from becoming POTUS because his father was NOT born on American soil or have U.S. Citizenship, no body would pay attention...we best this time...