Cruz, Rubio, and Jindal are all ineligible to be President - Not Natural Born Citizens of the US

[Aloha_Shooter]

Whether or not Canada recognized Cruz's US citizenship had no bearing on whether the US did. They are completely different legal systems and the US has recognized the children of US citizens as having US citizenship regardless of where they are born. My brother and sister were both born overseas (before Cruz) but recognized as US citizens from day one. They got naturalization certificates solely to prevent the other country from trying to lay a claim on them but it was never a question as far as US law. We have had mirror cases in the past where country X granted citizenship status to people but the US didn't recognize any dual-citizenship status (including IIRC one very prominent senator and former presidential candidate).

Can we put a rest to this ridiculous line of argument? Say Cruz is an arse but this whole citizenship thing is bogus.

[HoneyBadger]

Whether or not Canada recognized Cruz's US citizenship had no bearing on whether the US did. They are completely different legal systems and the US has recognized the children of US citizens as having US citizenship regardless of where they are born. My brother and sister were both born overseas (before Cruz) but recognized as US citizens from day one. They got naturalization certificates solely to prevent the other country from trying to lay a claim on them but it was never a question as far as US law. We have had mirror cases in the past where country X granted citizenship status to people but the US didn't recognize any dual-citizenship status (including IIRC one very prominent senator and former presidential candidate).

Can we put a rest to this ridiculous line of argument? Say Cruz is an arse but this whole citizenship thing is bogus.

Yes, seriously.