Posted on 01/06/2016 3:34:41 PM PST by Isara
...Ted Cruz said...that he is certain that he never owned a Canadian passport,...
"Of course not," he told CNN's Dana Bash..."Yes, I'm sure. The media, with all due respect, love to engage in silly sideshows...."
Cruz's unequivocal answer follows a claim by rival Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who is neck-and-neck with him in Iowa, that the Texas senator has had a Canadian passport. Cruz was born as an American citizen in Canada, and claims he did not know he had Canadian citizenship until informed by a reporter in 2013.
"The legal issue is straightforward," he said, calling it a "non-issue." "Listen, the Constitution and the laws of the United States are straightforward. The very first Congress defined the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad as a natural-born citizen."
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"I'd hate to see something like that get in his way," Trump told The Washington Post, saying that Cruz could get tied up in a lawsuit if elected. "But a lot of people are talking about it and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport."
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"Look, as a legal matter, the question is straight-forward in law that the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen," Cruz told reporters. "People will continue to make political noise about it but as a legal matter it is straight-forward. I would note that it has occurred many times in history."
While he was born in Canada, Cruz's mother's status as a U.S. citizen made him one as well.
He pointed to three former Republican presidential candidates, highlighting Arizona Sen. John McCain's birth in Panama, Mitt Romney's father George Romney's birth in Mexico and former Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater's birth there before Arizona became a state.
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We didn’t do passports between Canada and the USA till very recently.
Hey Ted, I hate to break it to you, but Congress does not have the power to change the Constitution.
If both parents have to be citizens, are bastard children of indeterminate paternity out of contention by default?
Cruz did not have to take citizenship test to become a citizen. He was a born citizen. And I do not think he was born artificially. This is a non-issue. Trump is going down.
That’s right. That started soon after 9/11. I visited Canada many times with nothing more than my birth certificate and drivers license.
Where does the Constitution say he's not natural born?
Go ahead, genius, break it to us.
Not too surprising considering he supposedly didn’t even know he was a Canadian citizen until 2013.
The Act also establishes the United States citizenship of certain children of citizens, born abroad, without the need for naturalization: "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"
Strange, the left wing media was never concerned about the fact that Obama had both an Indonesian passport as well as a British one and that he traveled to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport when it was illegal for Americans to do so.
They were also totally unconcerned about his status as a foreign student.
Now, suddenly, they are all interested in these matters.
“Congress does not have the power to change the Constitution”
I don’t know which Constitution you are talking about, but Article V of the US Constitution makes it clear. Time to hit the Constitution course, buddy.
That’s the power of Doublethink!
The claim that Rump is just trying to protect us from future trouble is laughable at best.
If he truly wants to protect us from future trouble he needs to file a lawsuit and prove his case. (Yes the burden of proof is still on the accuser)
Till then he’s just a high profile concern troll coward.
Cruz is eligible, but it is difficult to believe that Cruz did not know that being born in Canada, would mean he had Canadian citizenship.
Trump is steering the topic to a non-issue. He knows he is going down, so wants to go out in style.
We didn’t do passports between Canada and the USA till very recently.
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I think the point is that Canadian passports have existed for, well since passports. The fact that all you needed was a drivers license to get into Canada until recently is not the point being made here.
The Constitution says NBC but doesn't define it. It would be up to Congress to define it. Right?
I’m curious how that is even probable? How could that little fact elude him? This is really confuses me, based on his intellect and his passion for the rule of law. I must be missing something here.
Going down? How so? This will be a non issue by Monday...
I have always found it curious.
Trump will lose to Cruz in Iowa. He will also lose in NH as the Stableashment gets behind Rubio. Cruz will then pick up SC and beyond. Trump is toast. Just watch.
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