The point isn’t who Congress chooses to confer citizenship upon, but their definition of natural-born. At the time of his birth, Cruz was a citizen; thus, he is a natural-born citizen, as opposed to a naturalized citizen.
Yes, some of that's true, but we don't know the rest without seeing the paperwork and timeline.
The problem is, we don't know for sure what his father's and his mother's citizenship each were when Ted was born.
If they were both Canadian citizens, then you're right that Ted Cruz would be a natural born Canadian citizen and nothing else.
What else could he be in that case?
His citizenship would be pure Canadian when he was born, the very essence of a "natural born" citizen.
Good call!
The term specified—”natural born— was used in the Constitution to indicate “no conflicting loyalties”—as having a Cuban or Kenyan father might create— to draw a distinction between NBC and mere citizen by birth, like anchor babies are claimed to be.
Can an anchor baby—a “dreamer”—become Prez if they are 35?
No doubt Cruz is a citizen—but with only one American parent, no way is he an NBC, according to his own definition when interviewed while running in the Texas Senate primary.