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To: matt1234

A few years ago when researching Sen.Obama, I came across a footnote that piqued my interest: it stated that the U.S.Senate had the power to eject from their body any Senator who was deemed ineligible. It mentioned that during the 19th century two Senators, neither of whom were U.S. citizens, experienced just that. Their names were struck from the records as never having existed.

One of the gentlemen involved became a U.S. citizen, waited for the required number of years and was again chosen by his state to be a Senator in Congress.

Senator Cruz should do something to repair his U.S. citizenship, or he just might find himself without any country at all and Texas may not have a say in it.


7 posted on 02/21/2016 1:07:31 AM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: SatinDoll

Since you think Cruz was a natural born Canadian as opposed to being both a natural born Canadian and a natural born American (and now having renounced his Canadian citizenship, is a person of no citizenship), I have a question:

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz propose that the United States practice of considering children born in the United States to foreign citizen parents who are here on temporary visa or who are here illegal NOT be natural born U.S. citizens. (Possibly, the President could simply direct that the practice of recognizing them as such be ended. Possibly this would require an act of Congress or even a Constitutional Amendment.)

If we were to make this change, to what country would persons born here to such parents be citizens?


51 posted on 02/21/2016 5:32:02 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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