Ted Cruz, Tea Party favourite, renounces Canadian citizenship
Source: CBC News
Canada-born U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has given up his citizenship from his birth country, making good on a promise from last summer.
Spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said the Tea Party favourite formally gave up his citizenship May 14. He received official confirmation of the action at his Houston home Tuesday.
Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1970. The possible 2016 presidential candidate's mother is American, making him eligible for the White House.
News that he had renounced his citizenship was first reported by the Dallas Morning News. The newspaper also broke that Cruz had dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship when he released his birth certificate in August.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ted-cruz-tea-party-favourite-renounces-canadian-citizenship-1.2671479
Here's the renunciation letter.
My favorite comment: "Show us the REAL Renunciation Certificate! That's obviously a photoshop job."
valerief
(53,235 posts)My reaction when I read this
CHIMO
(9,223 posts)Bill C-24 would give the government powers to strip Canadian citizenship from dual nationals who were members of an armed force or an organized armed group engaged in armed conflict in Canada. Citizenship would also be revoked from dual nationals who have been convicted of terrorism, high treason, or spying offences.
Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati warned MPs, senators and the Governor General, in separate letters sent on Monday, not to pass Bill C-24 until the government referred a key provision of the bill to the Supreme Court for a legal opinion.
At the heart of Galati's challenge are provisions contained in the citizenship bill that would strip dual nationals of their citizenship and bar them from reacquiring it.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chris-alexander-says-citizenship-bill-will-withstand-constitutional-test-1.2671265
7962
(11,841 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)his Kenyan citizenship, it would make him OK with the Teabaggers.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)a new holiday.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Nuh Uh
(47 posts)He retains Cuban citizenship as a child of a Cuban citizen. Cuba does not recognize dual citizenship. http://havana.usint.gov/service.html
Although he technically could not renounce his Cuban citizenship, I suspect great hay could be made over it and may be something Democrats might want to pursue.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)And he is still not constitutionally able to run for president of USA
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Rules only apply to specific affiliations...
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)He still cannot be president, I think.
nytemare
(10,888 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)dflprincess
(28,075 posts)antiGOPin294
(53 posts)I'm not thrilled that he's still in this country, but Canada is a much better country without him. The Canucks don't deserve to suffer through Cruz's BS like we do.
genwah
(574 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)if his parents didn't file the proper paperwork at birth. I don't have cable to watch FOX. Are they covering this?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)At least ask him why he doesn't self-deport. Self-deportation would be the fine up-standing Republican way to be a gentleman and set an example.
I would not be surprised at all if there is some irregularity in Cruz's immigration history. His father didn't bother becoming an American citizen until 2005.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I suspect just the former existence of your connection to a civilized country will be enough to ruin you among the GOP "base"...you might as well be a French speaker...LOL...
Amonester
(11,541 posts)Good Riddance!! If only his pal harper would do it too some day...
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Unlucky for us.
bvf
(6,604 posts)My favorite comment: "Show us the REAL Renunciation Certificate! That's obviously a photoshop job."
Wish I'd swallowed before reading that.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)groundloop
(11,518 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)the far Right loons will be willing to vote for a Cuban/Canadian?
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)A real American would have renounced years ago when they instituted socialistical medicine in Canada.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)his FS-420 or DS-1350 forms, You know, the ones his parents were supposed to get from the American Consulate in Calgary.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)I'll bet Canada is thrilled!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Obama born in Hawaii is a natural born citizen, Canadian Cruise a natural born canadian citizen should be barred from ever being prez.
If those lyin hypocrites really believed their own BS anyway. Its all about the scary black man in the whitehouse with those kkk-republicans.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
So, does that mean if he's been a US resident 14 yrs. he CAN run for pres?