nwtk2007 wrote:
If the facts as stated by vrooman are true, and Cruz was born in Canada and declared to be a Canadian Citizen, then he has a point.
McCains father was, I believe, and American citizen and when he was born on the US military base, subject to the US laws and regulations.
They are in no way comparable.
Once more, Cruz's mother was an American citizen. US military bases are considered foreign soil, they are not like embassies. The Canal Zone was not a US territory the year of McCain's birth. He was grandfathered in in 1937, along with everyone else born there since 1915. 8 USC specifies that a person born to a US citizen mother is a citizen from birth. That is the definition of a natural born citizen, period. There are natural born citizens, and there are citizens who require naturalization. Ted Cruz, by virtue of his mother's US citizenship, is a birth citizen requiring NO naturalization procedure, i.e., natural born. Unlike people who get their legal opinions from the
Weekly World News, US LAW states that one US citizen parent is all that is required.
The claims that Canada did not allow dual citizenship in 1970 are bullshit.
I have read the Canadian statutes they supposedly emanate from and there is nothing of the sort in there. I just posted the statutes in question. Read them for yourself. The US Law stating that Cruz was and is natural born may be found in 8USC, in the 1400 section. It has been around since 1790. The 1790 law was repealed and replaced by the 1795 law which was repealed and replaced by the 1805 law and so on till 1952 when the re-statement that gives Cruz natural born status was promulgated. People do not understand legalese. When a statute is repealed and replaced, frequently, much of the statute is carried forward by means of notation, i.e.,
except in this or that case. The 1790 law and the 1952 law are not that much different, when taken in their entirety.
Before I forget, here is the link about Military bases and US territory.
http://military.findlaw.com/family-employment-housing/military-children-born-abroad.htmlAnother fairy tale is that Cruz is not a US citizen because there does not seem to be a Consular Record of Birth Abroad. These forms are recommended, but have never, ever been a requirement.
Canadian law provides that anyone born in Canada is a Canadian until such time as they reach majority and can renounce, whether they like it or not.
Incontrovertible US Law states that a person born to a US citizen anywhere in the world is a natural born US citizen.
Ted Cruz was, actually, a natural born citizen of both the US and Canada.
His renunciation of Canadian Citizenship had NO EFFECT whatsoever on his natural born US status.
Of course, someone said, Cruz conspiracy theorists could have a Supreme Court decision slap them in the face and they would still believe what they please.
Those are the facts, as backed up by Canadian and US law, not by some barely literate hack writing for the
National Enquirer.