According
to Article 1, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, the requirements to
become a United States Senator include that the candidate must:
·
be at least 30 years old.
§ a
United States citizen for at least nine years at the time of their election to
the Senate.
§ a
resident and inhabitant of the state they are being elected to represent
in the Senate.
According
to an “authenticated timeline of known facts concerning the citizenship of
Senator Ted Cruz” both of his parents were Canadian citizens at the
time of his birth. The timeline reveals:
·
In 1957 Rafael Cruz, Ted’s father, attended the University
of Texas as a foreign student on a four-year student visa, obtained
at the US Consulate in Havana.
§ In 1962
when Rafael graduated and his student visa expired he obtained political asylum and
was issued a green card,
but remained a Cuban citizen.
§ In 1969 Rafael Cruz married Eleanor Darragh Wilson. Who was
born in Delaware in 1935
§ On
December 22, 1970 Ted was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Rafael and
Eleanor, Elizabeth Wilson the names on Ted’s Birth certificate, which when
Rafael became a Canadian citizen it voided his prior American green card
status.
§ In 1974
the Cruz family moves to the United States.
§ In 2005
Rafael Cruz renounces his Canadian Citizenship and becomes a United States
Citizen.
§ In
August 2013 Ted releases his Canadian birth certificate.
He’s a Canadian,” said Toronto lawyer
Stephen Green, past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship
and Immigration Section.
“Generally
speaking, under the Citizenship Act of 1947, those born in Canada were automatically
citizens at birth unless their parent was a foreign diplomat,” said
ministry spokeswoman Julie Lafortune.
While
Ted’s birth certificate shows that his mother was born in Delaware, Eleanor United
States citizen, did she retain that citizenship in Canada?
In May
14, 2014, Ted Cruz received formal notification that the renunciation of
his Canadian citizenship was official. But where is Eleanor’s birth
certificate? I can say I was born in Delaware, but that doesn’t make it true.
If Ted
Cruz’s mother was in fact born in Delaware, did she have dual citizenship when
Ted was born in Canada?
Should
Ted Cruz be stripped of his Senate seat? If so, he surely isn’t eligible to be
in the White House.
