FACTUAL CRUZ CITIZENSHIP
TIMELINE
(Everything presented in this
timeline is a matter of public record. All of it is based upon publicly
reported events, public statements made by Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz, officials
with the Elect Ted movement or U.S. and Canadian officials.)
1957 – After
working as a teen to help Fidel Castro gain power in Cuba, and being imprisoned
for his actions by the Batista regime, Cuban Rafael Cruz applies for admittance
to the University of Texas as a foreign student and enters the U.S. on a four
year student visa to attend four years of college. He is a Cuban citizen
attending a U.S. college on a student visa obtained through the U.S. Consulate
in Havana.
1961-1962 – After graduating college at the
University of Texas, and upon the expiration of his student visa, Cruz Sr.
applied for and received “political asylum” and was issued a “green card.” A
green card is a permit to reside and work in the United States, without
becoming a “citizen” of the United States, in this case, under political asylum
from Castro’s Cuba. His citizenship status was that of a Cuban national living
and working in the United States, under a green card work permit. According to
U.S. laws, the “green card” holder must maintain permanent resident status, and
can be removed from the United States if certain conditions of this status are
not met.
1964-1966 – Cruz
Sr. takes a few odd jobs, marries and moves to Canada to work in the oil
fields. The Cruz family resides in Canada for the next eight years. “I worked in Canada for eight years,”
Rafael Cruz says. “And while I was in Canada, I became a Canadian citizen.” – (From
and interview with NPR)
Peter Spiro, a legal expert on U.S.
citizenship at Temple University. Spiro says Rafael Cruz's multi-country odyssey did not follow traditional models
for immigration. – SPIRO: “Ted Cruz
himself seems to be an advocate of those traditional immigration models. Maybe
he should be a little more tolerant of the nontraditional versions, given his
own father's history.”
1970 – Ted Cruz is
born in Canada, to two parents who had lived in Canada for at least four years
at that time, and had applied for and received Canadian citizenship under
Canadian Immigration and Naturalization Laws, as stated by Rafael Cruz. As a
result, U.S. statutes would have voided the prior “green card” status which
requires among other things, permanent residency within the United States and
obviously, not becoming a citizen of another country during the time frame of
the U.S. green card.
1974 – The Cruz
family moves to the United States when Ted is approximately four years old.
Rafael Cruz has publicly stated that he remained a citizen of Canada until he
renounced his Canadian citizenship when he applied for and became a U.S.
Naturalized citizen in 2005. As a result, his wife and son were also Canadian
citizens, his son being born a citizen of Canada in 1970.
2005 – Rafael
Cruz applies for legal U.S. citizenship and renounces his Canadian citizenship.
No record of Ted renouncing his Canadian citizenship or applying for U.S.
citizenship exists as of 2005.
2013 – Freshman
Senator Ted Cruz is a rising star in the Tea Party movement, and calls for him
to run for the White House begin. In July, Ted Cruz is questioned by the press
about his interest in running for President, and the issue of his Canadian born
citizenship is brought up.
Sen. Ted Cruz rejected questions Sunday over his eligibility
to be president, saying that although he was born in Canada “the facts are clear” that he’s a U.S.
citizen. “My mother was born in
Wilmington, Delaware. She’s a U.S. citizen, so I’m a U.S. citizen by birth,”
Cruz told ABC. “I’m not going to engage
in a legal debate.”
NOTE: Senator
Cruz omits the part of his father’s story, in particular, the part about his
parents applying for and receiving Canadian citizenship prior to Ted’s birth in
Calgary. He also attempts to gloss past the actual definition of natural-born
Citizen by implying it is a mere legal debate for others to figure out.
August 2013 – As
Ted’s political stock rises in the Tea Party, so do press questions about his
eligibility for office. Ted decides to quiet the questions by releasing his
birth certificate, which now becomes absolute proof of Ted’s Canadian
citizenship at birth, 1970, Calgary. The release of the Canadian birth records
only serve to further fuel the controversy…
Ted seeks legal
counsel, as the media is now pressing members of Canadian Immigration and
Naturalization to clear the matter up, when instead, Canadian officials confirm
the Ted Cruz was in fact born a legal citizen of Canada, the son of two parents
who had also applied for and received Canadian citizenship prior to Ted’s
birth.
“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.
Legal counsel advises Ted to “renounce his Canadian
citizenship” in order to make himself eligible to run for the Presidency. Of
course, renouncing one’s original citizenship only further proves one’s
original citizenship.
May 2014 – Ted
Cruz legal counsel files to renounce Ted’s Canadian citizenship in an effort to
make him eligible to run for high office under the natural-born Citizen clause
Article II in the U.S. Constitution.
AUSTIN, Texas – Canada-born U.S. Sen. 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 favorite formally gave up his citizenship May 14. He received
official confirmation of the action at his Houston home Tuesday.”
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.
Frazier said Cruz “is
pleased to have the process finalized” and that it “makes sense he should be only an American citizen.”- Of course,
the Constitution does not require that one be only an American citizen, but
rather a natural born Citizen.
As of February 4,
2015 – No evidence of any U.S. Citizenship has been released to confirm
anything at all about the true citizenship status of Ted Cruz.
Because Ted Cruz has been confirmed a legal citizen of
Canada up until renouncing his Canadian citizenship in May of 2014, and because
he has been confirmed a citizen of Canada at birth, and because his Father is
on public record stating that he and his wife became citizens of Canada during
their eight years living in Canada and because Rafael Cruz remained a citizen
of Canada until he renounced and applied for legal U.S. citizenship in 2005….
There is simply NO WAY that Ted Cruz was, is or ever can be a “natural-born
Citizen” of the United States eligible for the offices of President or Vice
President.
So, does this mean that members of the Tea Party are engaged
in an overt effort to defraud Tea Party members who are Ted fans, by all of
this legal fancy footwork?
The facts are all well documented. You decide…
One who inherits their Citizenship at birth via nature
alone, from their natural birth Father, is a natural born Citizen of the United
States. According to all available information on Ted Cruz and his family, Ted
Cruz was a native born citizen of Canada and not a natural born Citizen of the
United States. Now, Ted is either not too bright, or not too honest…. But he is
at least one of the two… and what about the Tea Party leaders behind this legal
shell game?