Oh Lookie, A Birth Certificate!
Hey, there’s always a chance that Ted Cruz will run for the Canadian Parliament instead of President.
He released his birth certificate to the Dallas Morning News.
It shows that he was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. There appears to be no special warning on the certificate that his father is batcrap crazy, which seems very unneighborly of Canada not to warn us.
Cruz says this document makes him eligible to be President of the United States, even with that whole batcrap crazy thing running in his family.
Now, here’s the rub.
What will the birthers say?
Interestingly, here’s what Canadians say. Allison Christians, a law professor at McGill University in Montreal says of Cruz, “He’s a Canadian citizen. The question of citizenship is determined by the law of the territory in which you were physically born,” she said. “It’s not up to the Cruz family to decide whether they’re citizens.”
So, if he has to renounce his Canadian citizenship, will there be a gleeful ceremony among the Tea Party folks? In French? Does he have to kill a moose?
And, you know, that surely doesn’t look like the long form of the birth certificate. Where’s the original? Was he born under socialized medicine? If so, does that make him a natural born socialist?
This is gonna be fun, y’all.
Thanks to John for the very cool graphic.
Why on earth should Canada warn us when they had a chance to get rid of elder Cruz and his spawn?
1That document does not show he is an United States Citizen. We do not know if his mother renounced her US citizenship, nor do we know if Rafael Cruz resided in the United States for the requisite time to become a citizen.
He could probably prove the ten years presence rather easily, but the Birth certificate itself is insufficient.
The Law:
2A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) of the INA provided the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five years physical presence, two after the age of fourteen, is required. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten years, five after the age of fourteen, is required for physical presence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.) The U.S. citizen parent must be genetically related to the child to transmit U.S. citizenship.
This birth certificate just verifies that he is a birthright Canadian citizen. As such, he has dual citizenship until he actually renounce his Canadian citizenship.
3So he’s a CanCubanAm or an AmCanCuban or a CubanCanAm or a CanAmCuban or a CubanAmCan or a…..
4That doesn’t look like a REAL birth certificate to me.
5That whole thing looks fake to me. Can’t Canada afford gold seals? What’s that whole orange splotch supposed to mean? It’s not even embossed. And that green border looks like it was drawn with a kid’s marker.
Either it’s fake. Or Canada sucks at birth certificates.
6OMG!!!! You are SO right! This is TOO much fun!
Um, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but according to the U.S. Constitution, doesn’t a member of the U.S. Congress HAVE to be a U.S. citizen? Does that make him an illegal immigrant? AND a felon?
7Oh my!
So, is he allowed to be a U.S. Senator? A Senator must have been a U.S. citizen for at least 9 years, and last time I heard, the U.S. doesn’t allow dual citizenship. If you want to be a U.S.citizen you must renounce citizenship in any other country.
8Does he qualify? Inquiring minds really want to know!
Of course, I believe that Ted Cruz is eligible to run for the presidency even though he has about as much chance as Generalissimo Franco does of becoming POTUS—so I’m not really worried about his crazy butt.
But the hysterical part is messin’ with previous birthers who are now lock jawed. Their cognitive dissonance will be so much fun. I already know a birther I want to torment (a little). She loooooves her some Ted.
9Based on his interview, he has never renounced his Canadian citizenship. Dual citizenship puts his allegiance to a foreign county into question.
10I met another Democrat at a cafe awhile ago. I got her email address. Now I can send her this stuff so she too can worry about whether or not the birthers should go into withdrawal. And Glen, that there birth certificate is colored inside the lines, which oughta give it a certain amount of credibility even if it is colored with a marker.
11I sure hope the “birthers” like the taste of crow . . .
12Where’s Donald Trump when you need him?
13It does not matter; Cruz will not win the GOP nomination. He is too prissy for red-necks.
14Does not appear to be the equivalent of the State of Hawaii “long form” that birthers demanded to prove Obama’s citizenship and that Obama finally released only to have birthers denounce as a forgery. Here’s Snopes debunking of that claim: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertificate.asp
15When my grandmother, and her brother immigrated to the U.S. from Canada, when my grandmother, and grandfather married, she was… back then …. automatically a U.S. Citizen.
My great-uncle….. from what I read in our family history… way before “Ancestry.com” in order to become a citizen, had to renounce his allegiance to …. I’m thinking it would have been Queen Victoria….. or whomever… at the time.
I would be surprised, if you just came across Niagra Falls and said,…… “Hey….. I’m now an American citizen.”.
But then…… who knows any more???
16That orange thingy on the bottom left of the birth certificate is a Dr. Scholls corn bandaid.
17In US history, there have been THREE US Presidents with dual citizenship, all US/British through their fathers: Obama (Kenya was British at the time of his birth) and Buchanan and Arthur, both of whom were considered British citizens through their Irish daddies.
However, from the looks of this document, Cruz has THREE citizenships. (Four if you count Texas.) Interestingly, two of them have free health care. And in two of them you can legally obtain Cuban cigars. Two of them have had the same head of state since before Cruz (or I, or even Obama) was born.
It sucks that of his 3 homelands, Cruz has chosen to inflict himself on this one, but I guess it was inevitable since he is here and the other two don’t want him back!
18His father’s occupation is listed as “Geophysical Consultant” which seems to be someone who analyzes the properties of the earth. You’d think one of them could put some analyzing to work and figure out that Canada isn’t the US. “Yeah just start drilling that oil well over there, I know it’s Canada, but I’ve got a document that said a previous owner lived in the US. Previously. Don’t worry about it, it should be fine.”
19Obama didn’t have dual citizenship at the time he was elected. His British citizenship converted to Kenyan citizenship in 1963. Since he did not claim his Kenyan citizenship by the age of 23, he never had Kenyan citizenship and only had British citizenship for a very short time as an infant. At the time he was elected, he had only U.S. citizenship.
20Wing Nut Daily (aka World News Daily) is a major source of birther stupidity. Back in 2010, WND told Governor Granholm that she was not eligible to be POTUS because she has dual citizenship with Canada http://www.wnd.com/2010/02/125858/
Wallace then pointed out that she would be unqualified to run, anyway.
“We should point out Gov. Granholm is a Canadian and cannot run for president,” he said.
“I’m American. I’ve got dual citizenship,” Granholm corrected him.
After bantering about who she supports in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Granholm said, “I left Canada when I was 4. Come on.”
21Being governor is not the same as being President. Different requirements. Further, if Cruz’s mother did not fill out proper paperwork at the time of his birth, it’s possible that Cruz’s American citizenship has never been recorded. The birth certificate above only shows that he has Canadian birthright citizenship.
22WND told Granholm that she was not eligible to run for POTUS which means that Carnival Cruz has dual US and Canadian citizenship just like Granholm
23He wouldn’t be eligible if he were a Canadian, either! LOL! That’s all this birth certificate he produced shows. Having a mother born in the U.S. isn’t evidence of American citizenship. Cruz is a lawyer. He should know better.
24Toadster Cruz can be on Capitol Hill even if he were a naturalized citizen. Its that birth thing that holds him back from the other stuff he so much wants. Some time ago Arnold Schwartzenegger was so popular that folks were trying to figure out a way for an Austiran born naturalized American could run for the White House. It was a total no go. It would require another amendment to the Constitution. The reason behind the birth vs. naturalization thing is that one should have completely shed the previous political incarnation lest they be tempted in future to revert to the original incarnation. If I remember, I think that was the real reason why the refugees from Egypt followed Moses around for 40 years, so they could shed the Egyptian mystique from their culture. I wonder if any of them were smart enough to realize this at the time or especially when they did walk into the Promised Land and realized that could have been there a whole bunch sooner if they had simply walked a straight line.
25If he renounces his Canadian citizenship, my Canadian cousins will be ecstatic!
26But is he also a Cuban citizen, since his father was a Cuban citizen at that time?
27mike from iowa: Dr. Scholl’s is denying any connection to Cruz’ green magic marker birth “coupon” and refutes the claim that he has ever been in Canada.(not that there’s anything wrong with that)
28Can you imagine dragging your kids and cooking utensils around a desert for 40 years? Kind of like dragging Cruz and company around Texas…..
29maryelle-that is funny!! Thanks.
30I’m sure the Trump will hire a private investigator to verify this birth certificate.
31FYI: Jennifer Granholm was born in Canada to Canadian citizens (whose parents immigrated from Sweden and Norway). Although they moved to California when she was 4, she didn’t become a naturalized American citizen until she turned 21. There is no way she could be considered a “natural-born” American and this isn’t something she has contested, either. Too bad. She’s the real deal. Unlike Cruz.
32Lawrence O’Donnell is reporting that Cruz has announced he will renounce his Canadian citizenship. Seems he was/is a dual citizen by Canadian – and American – law.
33He’s from Canada? OMG! He’s one of those MOOSE-lims…
34Note: his father was Cuban. According the the Teabagger rules, that makes him a Marxist-Leninist-Communist. Oh, wait. Ted looks white. That changes all the rules.
35Even of his birth certificate is the real deal, the birthers should be up in arms the cruz did not renounce his Canadian citizenship.
36The birthers will have to eat crow. Their guy is an American the same way that POTUS Obama is an American, through his mother. Of course, Hawaii is a state, but don’t expect birthers to know that.
Cruz ia a Canadian citizen because he was born there. He has American citizenship because of his Mother. Too bad she didn’t pass the milk of human kindness to this weasel when he was sucking from a non=governmental teat.
37I don’t know what to think of the birth certificate but one thing I do know is that Ted Cruz isn’t playing with a full deck.
38You can keep him! No backsies! Even trade.
We gave you Nickleback, Ted Cruz & Justin Bieber.
You gave us Creed, Sarah Palin & Lady Gaga.
Let’s just call it even!
An Al? Your Moose-lim comment made me spew Diet Coke all over my iPad!
39One news source reported that he would also have Cuban citizenship as his father was a citizen of that country. This could be really messy and a whole lot of fun.
40LOL….. I hope CarnivalBoyCruz has his knickers thoroughly knotted right up deep inside his netherlands tonit
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