Posted on 07/18/2021 11:18:02 PM PDT by conservative98
Sen. Ted Cruz hadn’t been an official contender for the presidency of the United States for 12 hours before the questions started coming, even in the warm and welcoming cradle of a primetime interview before what should be the friendliest of conservative audiences.
“You were born in Calgary, in Canada,” FOX News host Sean Hannity asked him, glancing into the camera for an apologetic chuckle. “Is there a birth certificate issue?”
It’s a question that’s lurked around the edges of Cruz’s political profile ever since the junior senator gained enough notoriety to be mentioned as a presidential candidate. Google searches for “Ted Cruz Canadian” spiked in October 2013 as he led Republicans towards a government shutdown; the query jumped again on Monday as he announced his White House run.
And some of it is friendly fire. Donald Trump, famed skeptic of prominent pols’ citizenship paperwork, didn’t resist the urge to tweak his fellow Republican on Monday night when making his own appearance on FOX’s primetime programming.
“I hope he knows what he's doing, but I thought you had to be born in the country,” he suggested to interviewer Megyn Kelly, adding that Cruz has “one extra level of complication” because of how long he maintained dual citizenship with both the United States and our kindly neighbors to the north.
Cruz is far from the first – or even the second – White House wannabe whose birthplace has launched quizzical headlines about his fitness to inhabit the White House. Even before the Obama “birther” movement, John McCain’s eligibility was questioned because he was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone.
Similar queries were made of Gov. George Romney (dad of Mitt and presidential contender in 1968), who was born in Mexico to U.S. citizen parents.
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Do tell, who writes federal law? First you say "not law" and then you site a Federal Law!
Congress, as representatives of the People, write laws, under authority delegated to it by the people.
As I said, no law made Ted Cruz a citizen. For people born within the territory of the United States, the Constitution at Amendment 14 sets forth the requirements for said birth to confer United States citizenship. Those children who meet those requirements acquire citizenship at birth. The Constitution does not make them citizens, the circumstances of their birth makes them citizens.
For the blissfully unaware, the Constitution is Federal law.
For people born outside the territory of the United States, Federal law. Having met all the requirements of the law at the time of his birth, Ted Cruz became a citizen upon his birth. The law did not make him a citizen. The circumstances of his birth, having satisfied all requirements to acquire citizenship at birth, made him a citizen at birth.
Are you a troll? "When you argue with a fool you look like a fool". Bye.
Are you an idiot or do you just reside under a bridge?
Ted Cruz’s mother was a citizen of Canada, Ted Cruz’s father was a citizen of Canada, Ted Cruz was born in Canada to citizens of Canada. Ted Cruz is a Canadian and not a natural born citizen of the USA.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/01/08/ted-cruz-mother-birth-certificate/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/294913544/Eleanor-Darragh-Birth-Certificate#
The mother of Ted Cruz was born in Wilmington, Delaware, a natural born United States citizen, as was her son.
She was in Canada on a work permit and never became so much as a permanent resident of Canada, much less a citizen.
This appears to be typical of your "research." Ted Cruz provided his mother's birth certificate to Breitbart. It was published in 2016.
Where's your source that Ted Cruz's mother was a Canadian citizen?
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