Texas Senator (and possible 2016 presidential hopeful) Ted Cruz has formally given up his Canadian citizenship, about nine months after learning he had it.
Cruz intended to give up his Canadian citizenship, which was not a secret, after The Dallas Morning News first brought it to his attention, to the surprise of him and his family, last August.
Nothing against Canada, but Im an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American, said Cruz, who was born in the Canadian province of Alberta, at the time.
http://time.com/2854513/ted-cruz-canadian-citizenship/
No one is going to vote for a Canadian citizen for President. Not going to happen. So he ran as a Senator as a Canadian citizen and it took the top reporters from The Dallas Morning News to let Cruz know? All of that seems just weird. He grew up in Canada.
Early life and family
Ted Cruz was born on December 22, 1970, at Foothills General Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to parents Eleanor Elizabeth (Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz.] At the time of his birth, Cruz's parents had lived in Calgary for three years and were working in the oil business as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling. Cruz has said, i am m the son of two mathematicians/computer programmers. In 1974, his father left the family and moved to Texas.[ Later that same year, his parents reconciled and relocated to Houston.
Cruz's father was born in Cuba, and his grandfather was from the Canary Islands in Spain. His mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware and is three quarters of Irish descent and one quarter of Italian descent. His father left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas at Austin and obtained political asylum in the United States after his four-year student visa expired. Rafael Cruz earned Canadian citizenship in 1973 and ultimately became a Naturalization U.S. citizen in 2005. His mother earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s. Eleanor and Rafael Cruz divorced in 1997.
Cruz had two older half-sisters from his father's previous marriage, Miriam Ceferina Cruz and Roxana Lourdes Cruz. Miriam died in 2011.
Would Cruz have won Texas if everyone knew he was a Canadian citizen. Am a Cruz fan but this is not going to go away no matter how much Levin, Limbaugh and Hannity carry Cruz's water.
Maybe Rush knows this and hates Donald Trump because Rush has admitted and stuck up for Megan Kelly time after time, which is why he is pushing Rubio.
Weird times.
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