Sunday, May 24, 2015

Ted Cruz and the Citizen Issue


I have been following the citizenship issue with Ted Cruz. After review this issue, I found he had dual citizenship, U.S. and Canada. But final fix this problem by Canada accepting his request to revoke his Canadian citizenship.

Then I can across this review of his path to U.S. citizenship:

1. Cruz's father left Cuba with a forged exit visa to came to the US under a student visa.

2. Marries, has kids in Texas, still not a citizen, his student visa runs out and he applies for political asylum, granted, but then finds out he has to register for the draft for the Vietnam war.

3. So he leaves the US and runs off to Canada to avoid the draft with a married woman he met while at school.

4. His father takes on Canadian citizenship and renounces his Cuban Citizenship upon arrival in Canada.

5. No divorce papers from either marriage were discovered.

6. No marriage papers were found before the birth of Ted Cruz who is given a Canadian birth certificate because both his mother and father are Canadians and have lived in Canada for 4 years.

7. The mother had renounced US citizenship to remain in Canada and never registers Ted's birth certificate with the American consulate.

8. They live in Canada four years before Ted Cruz is born to unwed mother and stay another 4 years, total 8 years in Canada. Another story says she notified the U.S. Consulate to register his citizenship.

9. Father Cruz returns to US after amnesty is granted for all draft dodgers in 1978.

10. Mother follows back to the US but does not get back together with the father, according to her.

11. Ted's father, to avoid paying US taxes for 27 years, remains a Canadian citizen until 2005 when his son Ted announces he wants to run for public office.

12. After becoming an American citizen, his father takes on a tax exempt job as an evangelist.

The parents lived in Canada for 4 years before Ted's birth and remained in Canada for 4 more years for a total of 8 years.

The law states, "For persons born between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true.....For persons born out-of-wedlock (mother) if all the following apply:

1.the mother was a U.S. citizen at the time of the person’s birth and

2.the mother was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the person’s birth." OR, if married to an alien, Cruz's father, a Cuban Canadian, must be physically present for a period of 10 years prior to the birth.

3. She lived in the US 6 years before leaving to Canada and then lived in Canada 4 years before his birth (10 years). So she does not meet the requirements for Ted to be a natural born citizen. Since she lived in Canada for 4 years prior to his birth and took on Canadian citizenship to live and work in Canada, she does not meet the requirement. Ted is not eligible for being the U.S. President.

From Wikipedia:

Cruz was born on December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where his parents, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, were working in the oil business. His parents owned a seismic-data processing firm for oil drillers. Cruz's mother, Eleanor Wilson Cruz, was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, of Irish and Italian descent. She earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in Houston in the 1950s.

Cruz's father was born in 1939 in Matanzas, Cuba, and as a teenager, he joined Fidel Castro's guerrilla groups to fight against the regime of Batista. He left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas. Rafael Cruz became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005. Cruz's father eventually left the oil business to become a minister, and he is now a pastor in Carrollton, Texas, a Dallas suburb.

Another issue:

Ted Cruz was naturalized under a collective naturalization act that gave him a second class of citizenship not covered under the 14th Amendment effective on 10 October 1978. He has not yet been naturalized in the State of Texas under the Texas naturalization law of 1869 as covered under the Texas Constitution of 1876.

So, please due your own research, and can he run for President?











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