Canada Ping!
Posted on 08/19/2013 6:17:17 PM PDT by kristinn
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship.
“Now the Dallas Morning News says that I may technically have dual citizenship,” Cruz said in a statement. “Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.”
SNIP
“Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, I assumed that was the end of the matter,” Cruz said.
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Will Obama renounce his Indonesian and British citizenship?
I would be careful about deferring to the DMN.
I dunno. These days it might be good to keep one’s options open.
Quite the conundrum. Is he or is he not naturalized? If he is not and it goes to SCOTUS, will the dikes, Kennedy, and Roberts say he is because of obama’s situation? Libs are going to be pretty butt hurt about this!
This is a likely indicator he will run for President. If not 2016 then 2020.
Any move by Cruz to bend to democrat accusations is a sign of weakness.
I still don’t think he should be qualified for Presidency. I really wish the rule was both parents MUST be born in the United States and the individual must be born in the United States. None of this naturalization business. We have 300+ million people in the United States and have only had 45 people as President and we can’t have strict rules for being President? I would not even mind having the Grandparents be ONLY born in the United States, but in this liberal world that would NEVER pass.
Oh those crazy leftwing birthers!
Ha! Exactly what I was thinking!!
I hope he needles Obama about how easy it is to just be honest and do the right thing.
Cruz has never been naturalized because he has been an American citizen since birth.
Cruz’s situation is not comparable to Soetoro’s because:
1) Soetoro’s mother did not meet the legal conditions for transmitting citizenship to Soetoro at birth. Cruz’s mother did meet the legal conditions for transmitting citizenship to her child.
2) Other than being the son of Frank Marshall Davis, Soetoro’s only chance of being an American citizen at birth was being born in the U.S. Since Soetoro’s “birth certificate” is a rank forgery, his “birth” in “Hawaii” is not established.
3) Soetoro was registered in school in Indonesia as an Indonesian. Soetoro reportedly claimed Indonesian citizenship when applying to Occidental. There are no comparable shady dealings in Cruz’s biography.
I have read all the stuff about the LAW OF NATIONS. All interesting. But there is no unambiguous proof that the term “natural born citizen” as used in the Constitution was intended to be NARROWER than “citizen at birth.” I.e., a person who never needed to be NATURALIZED.
The big difference between Soetoro and Cruz is that Cruz is indubitably a citizen, while Soetoro is very likely an illegal alien.
Ted is American as Apple Pie in my opinion.
“The big difference between Soetoro and Cruz is that Cruz is indubitably a citizen, while Soetoro is very likely an illegal alien.”
Cruz was born outside of America. No one disputes this. I do not want someone born outside of America as my president, even if it is Cruz. Why open the door?
Do Pigs Fly?
No offence, but at this point, take a guy from Mars if he’s an actual conservative and could get elected.
Cruz needs to demand Barry, the clown, show his BC. Barry is a fraud until he shows it.
Ted is American as Apple Pie in my opinion.
He is a good guy but not born in America. I wish he was disqualified as President but that won’t happen in Liberal America where as long as it feels right who cares.
Canada Ping!
So I guess that whatever chance he had of a career in the NHL is now out of the question.
He is absolutely not naturalized. He is a U.S. citizen because his mother was a U.S. citizen, thus a natural born citizen.
Naturalized means he had no claim on U.S. citizenship at birth either by parent or place of birth and went through the lengthy process to become an American.
Why? so we can run some Yo Yo?
Who is the 45th? Actually, since Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, I don’t think we’ve had 44.
Who is the 45th?
Actually I forgot that Obama is “44”....Ugh. I wish I could forget him completely and I wake up tomorrow to find I was having this big time comedic dream.
Why? so we can run some Yo Yo?
Oh please do not tell me that for the first time since 2005, we are going to disagree about a possible candidate. First of all he is a one term Senator (he has been in his seat for a whole 8 months) who was not born in the United States......
The first Congress and President Washington opened that door with the Naturalization Act of 1790: "And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens"
And in that 8 months he has pissed off ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
It wont be 8 months on 2016 ;)
Still doesn’t make him elligible to be president
Oh, just in time.
Not.
Talk about locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen.
I will be concerned about Cruz’s eligibility when Soetoro is in prison, and not otherwise.
Wow, the standard is now Obama? At least we have one party that still supports American being governed by Americans.
You mean the birth certificate he found among his mother’s belongings upon her death???
Seemed pretty important for him to reminice about in his book.
And in that 8 months he has pissed off ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
He is good at that. The only worry I have besides the whole birth thing (which in the general would not be an issue for me and I would RUN to the polling place to vote for him) is that we have had so many “perfect and popular” conservatives who were our “go to guy” for the Presidency only to be extremely disappointed in the person later. Not sure if this will be the case, but we have seen a ton of good people on their best behavior for the first years in office only to do a 180 soon after.
Obama is president for 2 terms, like it or not.
Why cut off Cruz’s ****?
“Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, .. “
Evidence?
How old was your mother when she gave birth? How long did she live in the United States? Did she meet the requirements AT THE TIME to confer citizenship to a baby born on foreign territory to a non-citizen daddy? If not, when were you naturalized?
And unfortunately for you being born outside the geographic United States sovereign boundary you fail Article II, Sec. 1 of Constitution in regards to unique Natural Born Citizenship requirement for Presidency.
Of course you probably didn’t know that right?
“Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, .. “
Evidence?
How old was your mother when she gave birth? How long did she live in the United States? Did she meet the requirements AT THE TIME to confer citizenship to a baby born on foreign territory to a non-citizen daddy? If not, when were you naturalized?
And unfortunately for you being born outside the geographic United States sovereign boundary you fail Article II, Sec. 1 of Constitution in regards to unique Natural Born Citizenship requirement for Presidency.
Of course you probably didn’t know that right?
They will all disappoint to some degree, especially in a general election.
I like the cut of this guys jib, he never gets rattled, he sticks to his guns without being offensive.
Perfect for a general election.
He is not naturalized.
His citizenship is based on bloodline. He’s the child of a US citizen, so he was automatically a citizen at birth.
I'd hold up there a while on that one, Ted.
“the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship”
Cruz is also Cuban because his father was born there.
He should renounce that too.
Because he’s not eligible?
Ted, you are as stupid as Bachman, who renounced Swiss citizenship.
So pointless
PERFECT!! I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing (I would add "and he'll stand up to the Liberal Establishment" - and they ARE the Establishment now, without question).
Evidence?
They will be calling him a hypocrite for opposing the DREAMers any second now.
Me too..lol. Cruz should release all of his college records next and needle Obama to release his!!
Are you an expert on the laws of Cuban citizenship?
Cruz has never had any allegiance to Canada or Cuba.
There is probably some family in Cuba.
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