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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Non-issue. Ted Cruz gets a free pass unchallenged because he is a Republican. He'd be torpedoed if he was a Democrat.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:09:35 -0700<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>CC: jeannemchale@hotmail.com; fritzknorr@gmail.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Dual citizenship may pose problem if Ted Cruz seeks presidency<br><br><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style="">Courtesy of the Dallas News at:</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:nowrap;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kkem52l" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/kkem52l</a></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:18px;white-space:nowrap;"> </span></div><div style="">--------------------------------------</div><div style=""><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"></p><h1 class="ecxviziwyg-editable ecxviziwyg-field-1150881-TITLE ecxviziwyg-section-7447" style="font-size:2.1em;line-height:1.2em;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-align:left;">Dual citizenship may pose problem if Ted Cruz seeks presidency</h1><p style=""></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WASHINGTON — Born in Canada to an American mother, Ted Cruz became an instant U.S. citizen. But under Canadian law, he also became a citizen of that country the moment he was born.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unless the Texas Republican senator formally renounces that citizenship, he will remain a citizen of both countries, legal experts say.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That means he could assert the right to vote in Canada or even run for Parliament. On a lunch break from the U.S. Senate, he could head to the nearby embassy — the one flying a bright red maple leaf flag — pull out his Calgary, Alberta, birth certificate and obtain a passport.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He’s a Canadian,” said Toronto lawyer Stephen Green, past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship and Immigration Section.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The circumstances of Cruz’s birth have fueled a simmering debate over his eligibility to run for president. Knowingly or not, dual citizenship is an apparent if inconvenient truth for the tea party firebrand, who shows every sign he’s angling for the White House.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier. “To our knowledge, he never had Canadian citizenship.”</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president. Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Constitution says nothing about would-be presidents born with dual citizenship.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Detractors have derided Cruz as “Canadian Ted,” saying he can’t run for president because he wasn’t born on U.S. soil.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cruz, a Harvard-trained lawyer and former clerk for the U.S. chief justice, disagrees. He reasserted last week that being an American by birth makes him eligible.</span></p><p class="ecxsubhead" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Looking ahead</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two visits in recent weeks to Iowa, the first state to winnow the field of presidential candidates, set off a fresh flurry of commentary on the issue. He heads to New Hampshire, another early voting state, on Friday — another strong sign that he’s eyeing a 2016 run.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The political impact of his citizenship status remains to be seen. Doubts about President Barack Obama’s heritage dogged him throughout 2008 and persist among hardcore “birthers.”</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Officials at Citizenship and Immigration Canada said that without a signed privacy waiver from Cruz, they cannot discuss his case.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the first time, Cruz released his birth certificate Friday in response to inquiries from <em style="overflow:visible;">The Dallas Morning News</em>.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dated a month after his birth on Dec. 22, 1970, it shows that Rafael Edward Cruz was born to Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, a “geophysical consultant” born in Matanzas, Cuba, and the former Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, born in Wilmington, Del.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her status made the baby a U.S. citizen at birth. For that, U.S. law required at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen who had lived for at least a decade in the United States.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She registered his birth with the U.S. consulate, Frazier said, and the future senator received a U.S. passport in 1986 ahead of a high school trip to England.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rafael Cruz, now a pastor in suburban Dallas, fled Cuba for Texas as a teen in 1957. He remained a Cuban citizen until he became a naturalized American in 2005.</span></p><p class="ecxsubhead" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Automatic citizenship</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Until 1947, people born in Canada were British subjects. The system Canada adopted after that closely mirrors that of the U.S.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Both confer citizenship automatically to anyone born on their territory, and to children of citizens even when the birth takes place overseas.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By 1970, the Cruzes had moved to the Canadian oil patch, where they launched a seismic-data business. For purpose of citizenship, being foreigners made no difference.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If a child was born in the territory, he is Canadian, period,” said France Houle, a law professor at the University of Montreal. “He can ask for a passport. He can vote.”</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fact that Cruz left Canada when he was 4 doesn’t affect his status there, either.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If you leave when you’re 2 minutes old, you’re still an American. It’s the same in Canada,” said Allison Christians, a law professor at McGill University in Montreal. “He’s a Canadian citizen.”</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Having practiced international tax law in the U.S. for 25 years, Christians has made a close study of citizenship rules. They often come into play in tax cases.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“They can feel as American as they want. But 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.”</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As a Cuban, Rafael Cruz probably could have requested citizenship for his son, experts said. Even if he’d wanted to, the Cuban Constitution bans dual citizenship. And the chance to register the child passed long ago.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The U.S. and Cuba have very similar legal patterns and requirements,” said David Abraham, a professor of immigration and citizenship law at the University of Miami.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The situation reflects the overlapping jurisdictions, said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, who called birthright citizenship common in English-speaking countries.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If Ted Cruz was born in Canada, he is Canadian. He is American. He is a dual citizen,” he said.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That’s not uncommon in Canada, especially in French-speaking Quebec. But even there it can cause headaches for politicians.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2006, Canada’s Liberal Party Leader Stéphane Dion — born in Quebec City and also a citizen of France, his mother’s homeland — gave into a public uproar. He promised, reluctantly, to give up his French citizenship if he became prime minister, which never happened.</span></p><p class="ecxsubhead" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taxes</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unlike the U.S., which requires its citizens to pay taxes no matter where they live in the world, Canada only taxes people who reside there.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So there’s rarely much reason to relinquish Canadian citizenship.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For Cruz, though, it may become a political imperative. Though it would not affect his eligibility for the presidency, he could face questions about whether it’s appropriate for a commander in chief to have dual citizenship.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The relinquishment process is easy enough. It can take from a few weeks to a year. There’s a four-page form with a $100 fee. Applicants must appear before a special judge to prove they have citizenship elsewhere and aren’t engaged in fraud.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Records are kept private.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Green, one of Canada’s top immigration lawyers, has counseled pro sports teams, athletes and major corporations. He knows one person who renounced his Canadian citizenship as a condition of joining the U.S. Secret Service.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ve done it for people,” he said. “No problem.”</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sen. Ted Cruz's birth certificate shows he was born in Canada in 1970. It was released exclusively to The Dallas Morning News.</span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><img src="cid:71776A3C-6356-4869-8235-0E542C3BEC0F" alt="Ted-Cruz-birth-certificate.jpeg" id="ecx71776A3C-6356-4869-8235-0E542C3BEC0F" height="412" width="496"></p></div><div style="">--------------------------------------</div><div style=""><br></div><div><p style="padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;">Article II, United States Constitution</p><p style="padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="">"</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="a2s1c5" title="Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 - Qualifications" style="text-align:left;" target="_blank">N</a><span style="text-align:left;">o Person except a <b>natural born</b> [my emphasis] 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 </span><a title="35" style="text-align:left;" target="_blank">thirty five</a><span style="text-align:left;"> Years, and been </span><a title="14" style="text-align:left;" target="_blank">fourteen</a><span style="text-align:left;">Years a Resident within the United States."</span></span></p><p style="padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align:left;">What is your definition of "natural born", V-Peeps?</span></span></p><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="">--------------</span></p><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="">Sourtesy of the Free Republic at:</span></p><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto;white-space:nowrap;"><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2840767/posts" target="_blank">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2840767/posts</a></span></p><p style="text-align:-webkit-auto;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="">"</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Natural born citizenship</i>: A natural born citizen is one whose citizenship is not granted by law or by any act of a sovereign, but inheres naturally in the person from birth according to principles that don't depend on laws or decisions of a sovereign. The rest of this essay will fully justify this definition."</span></p><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px 0px 10px;overflow:visible;"><span style="">--------------</span></p></div><div style="">Bad deal . . . ay?<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium;">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style=""><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================
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