didn't give him a clue.
Posted on 01/06/2016 3:34:41 PM PST by Isara
“I must be missing something here.”
That is an understatement. Cruz is an specialist in the US Constitution, not Canadian. I believe him when he says that he did not know he was a Canadian citizen.
I don’t think both parents are the issue. Someone in the same situation said his parents had to fill out papers at the embassy to formally establish his citizenship and that makes him a naturalized citizen.
Don’t beat me up, just sayin’
“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.”
Yeah, ok.
Sorry, if you are a citizen and your child could have been born in freakin Mars (and delay the paperwork for the re-entry) and still be a natural born US citizen!
Ok sagar, you’re telling me that simply due to being an expert on American law, that would preclude him from having any knowledge of Canadian citizenship? Really? As a grown man, how does that work?
As most ‘smart’ people tend to do, you discuss your family history with them. Are you suggesting that it has never been raised in conversations with his parents, or other family members, that he was a citizen of Canada?
That’s almost too pathetic to spin, but I imagine you will do just that.
It’s just very very odd.
In addition, while reading threads today, it was stated that his birth certificate is sealed. Do you have any knowledge of that? It’s the first I heard of that and wondered if it was true. Thanks
Person A really likes Tomatoes. Tomato is a fruit(look it up). Avocado is also a fruit(look it up). So, person A must also (kinda) like Avocado. Makes sense.
Question is did Ted go to college as an international student like Barry Soetoro did?
You are thinking about visas, not passports. You don't do passports "between" countries - a passport is issued by the country of which you are a citizen to allow you to travel to other countries and get back into your own country. A visa allows you to enter a specific country for a specified purpose and/or time period.
The argument people are tying to make is that Cruz was lying about not knowing he was a Canadian citizen until recently, because you have to apply for a passport and prove you are a citizen of that country before one is issued. The birthers are desperately trying to make this an issue, but have nothing to support their innuendo.
Unless Cruz’s mother also became a Canadian citizen- & in that timeline thing, the father states that they both became Canadian citizens, this is probably the real issue: that the birth has to be registered with the American embassy in order to establish US citizenship. Which didn’t happen.
We need to get this straightened out. All these years we’ve had no problems, then the last 3 election cycles, there’s just been a glut of candidates with ambiguous circumstances. It’s turning into a free-for-all of anything goes. That’s as bad as the democrats, just in a different way.
Not every country has birthright citizenship for the children of foreign visitors.
The factoid that Canadian law made him a Canadian citizen is of Canadian relevance only. It changes nothing with regard to US law.
“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.â€
“Dave’s not here, man”..
I don’t know anything other than that’s what I’ve read also. I find it incredibly odd that Cruz didn’t address this years ago and that currently he’s blowing it off as a joke instead of releasing all of his records.
“Not every country has birthright citizenship for the children of foreign visitors.”
He does have a JD and at some point I would think that his coursework or curiosity would have lead him to such a discovery.
"Someone" was mistaken. There is a form you can fill out, I think it is called a Consular Record of Live Birth. The purpose of the form is to make it easier to obtain a SSN, etc. for the child by documenting the fact of the birth to a US citizen. The paperwork does not make the child a US citizen - any more than filling out a birth certificate does. It merely records the fact that this child was born to a US citizen in a foreign country and is a US citizen. It is not mandatory that the form be filled out, and the child is still a citizen regardless - it just makes obtaining certain benefits easier.
LOL!
One of these threads has some picture of a Canadian BC for Cruz. We already know he was born in Canada. The question is did his mother take Canadian citizenship?
or... does natural born also include birth on American soil?
I don’t know.
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