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Texas Oilmen Push For Ted Cruz but Immigration Hard-Liners Want Dark-Horse Kris Kobach
The London Daily Mail ^ | 5 hours ago | By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Washington

Posted on 11/17/2016 4:51:35 PM PST by drewh

A fight is brewing among forces behind the Trump transition over the future of the Justice Department, with separate factions pushing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

A cabal of wealthy Texas oilmen is aggressively promoting Cruz for attorney general, according to a person with direct knowledge of discussions behind the scenes who also said the one-time Trump rival wants the slot.

On Thursday a new wrinkle emerged, with the Trump transition team releasing a statement about a meeting between Trump and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions. Trump, the statement said, 'has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabama's Attorney General and U.S. Attorney.' Those words suggest he is being considered to run the Justice Department.

A separate group of billionaires is encouraging the president-elect's team to embrace Kobach, citing his hard-line approach to restricting immigration across the board.

Those insiders want Trump to appoint Cruz to the U.S. Supreme Court instead.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cruz2016; kobach; trumpcabinet; trumpdoj; trumptransition
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Somebody with a US passport has proven to the State Department that they are a citizen.

...He certainly hasn't proven it to anyone else...

Cruz released both his and his mother's BC?

141 posted on 11/17/2016 8:48:10 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: okie01
Here is a ‘start’.

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/09/natural-born-citizen-clause-requires.html

142 posted on 11/17/2016 8:49:49 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: editor-surveyor
If your mother was a us citizen, and you returned before 8 years have lapsed, then you are without question a natural born US citizen.

Yes, and that from the One Hundred and Forty First Rule of Acquisition.

143 posted on 11/17/2016 8:51:49 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be our President.)
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To: editor-surveyor
You have NO clue what you are talking about... because if you did then the Obama gang would NOT have felt the need to make up a born in the USA birth certificate... Ignoring the fact that his pappy according to claims was NEVER a US citizen.

http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2009/09/natural-born-citizen-clause-requires.html

144 posted on 11/17/2016 8:52:15 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Just mythoughts

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Obama was born to a minor out of country.

She was too young to confer citizenship to her son. (that is in written law)
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145 posted on 11/17/2016 8:59:28 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: FreeReign
Cruz released both his and his mother's BC?

Which confirmed his Canadian citizenship (which he recently renounced) If his mother did not declare him to be a US citizen, AND in fact if she was voting in Canadian elections (as a Canadian citizen)...

Then he's a Canuk.

146 posted on 11/17/2016 9:06:22 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be our President.)
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To: ncalburt

Agree, keep Cruz & Romney bots away. Only if to see who they suggest for a position then run in the opposite direction. Love Sessions for anything and never heard of Kansas guy but if Trump likes him and Liberals heads spin, I love him.


147 posted on 11/17/2016 9:08:30 PM PST by pangaea6
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Which confirmed his Canadian citizenship (which he recently renounced) If his mother did not declare him to be a US citizen, AND in fact if she was voting in Canadian elections (as a Canadian citizen)...

No declaration is required.

148 posted on 11/17/2016 9:09:32 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: editor-surveyor
Natural born means that regardless of where you were born, you are a US citizen.

Wrong.

>>Natural born means that regardless of where in the US you were born, you are a natural born US citizen, if both your parents are US citizens. <<

Like Donald Trump.

149 posted on 11/17/2016 9:14:36 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be our President.)
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To: editor-surveyor
BS .... The Obama gang knew they needed a born in the USA birth certificate... what got ignored was that his supposed daddy was never a citizen of the US.

IF Ted Cruz was so confident in his eligibility then why did he seek to get Mitch the Senate to resolve him eligible, like the Senate did for lord McCain?

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/01/12/mitch-mcconnell-why-no-the-senate-wont-pass-a-resolution-affirming-cruzs-eligibility-like-it-did-for-mccain/

150 posted on 11/17/2016 9:15:26 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Look it up dear. Come back and explain how Rafael & Eleanor Cruz were able to vote in Canada.

Rafael openly admitted that after being a Cuban his first 30 years he became a Canadian for the next 35 years. And while Rafael ‘can’t seem to remember’ what his wife and the mother of his son did with her status, researchers have pursued Canadian records since Cruz’s mother has her lips sealed.

Sealed, just like the records.

My niece is born in England to an American mother, she has never been considered an American citizen. And what about the Amerasians?

Children of American soldiers and Vietnamese women, born during the Vietnam War began seeking citizenship in the USA in 2008. Most were brought to the United States in 1988 after Congress passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act, which allowed the children of American soldiers living in Vietnam to immigrate. But citizenship was not guaranteed, and today about half of the estimated 25,000 Amerasians living in the U.S. are resident aliens.

If only half of the children of American soldiers’ born abroad were awarded citizenship, how could you possibly assume a non-military child born abroad should be entitled to immediate citizenship? Was Eleanor in the military?

Ted came from Canada as a resident alien and had to have applied for USA citizenship. Hopefully he did that when he needed a passport to travel in high school. His father admittedly remained a Canadian (for unexplainable reasons) until 2005. Ted’s mother either reapplied for US citizenship or retained her Canadian Papers. Perhaps she repatriated in 2005?


151 posted on 11/17/2016 9:17:02 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

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We constantly get a load of stupid, lying noobs like you every election cycle.


152 posted on 11/17/2016 9:23:15 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Ted came from Canada as a resident alien and had to have applied for USA citizenship.

Have you read section 301(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act?

153 posted on 11/17/2016 9:33:33 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

‘FReepers’ wasting valuable time birthing have an agenda that does not include victory against the Left.


154 posted on 11/17/2016 9:40:17 PM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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To: FreeReign
No declaration is required.

Then why does the document exist? What is its purpose? Together with your birth certificate the CRBA iss part of your ID if you want to do certain things in the US. (like be a Senator)

Concerning his parents: his Communist father, with the JFK assassination connection, and his hippie-dippie mother committing voter fraud in Canada, it sounds like some pretty shaky assertions concerning his beginnings, and his citizenship status.

155 posted on 11/17/2016 9:41:45 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be our President.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Then why does the document exist? What is its purpose? Together with your birth certificate the CRBA iss part of your ID if you want to do certain things in the US. (like be a Senator)

Using a CRBA makes it easier for the parent or the kid to prove citizenship. It is not required to prove citizenship.

156 posted on 11/17/2016 9:46:42 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: editor-surveyor

Face the facts.

So, Ted Cruz with sealed citizenship records from Canada, is magically natural born, while 8 years ago, McCain was not considered natural born citizen.

Ted is not superior to the rest of us or the Constitution. If place of birth is of no consequence why would the Senate have acted for McCain?

Why did they pass a resolution 512 in the Senate (2007) in an attempt to amend the US Constitution and declare John McCain eligible to run for POTUS because he was not born in the USA.

John McCain— son of 2 Natural Born American citizens.

Admiral John McCain a 11th generation US citizen

Roberta Wright a 4th generation US citizen.


157 posted on 11/17/2016 9:47:30 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: txhurl

Yup. I can believe there are folks still wanting to bring this topic up. Meanwhile the left is targeting Trump and us.


158 posted on 11/17/2016 9:49:17 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Using a CRBA makes it easier for the parent or the kid to prove citizenship. It is not required to prove citizenship.

Which he hasn't done.

159 posted on 11/17/2016 9:50:31 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be our President.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

As I previously pointed out to you, Cruz released both his and his mother’s BC.


160 posted on 11/17/2016 9:52:46 PM PST by FreeReign
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