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Mariana

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14. She is also a natural born US citizen.

Reply to tritsofme (Reply #9)

Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:52 PM

Apr 2020

She was a citizen at birth, because her father was a citizen. That's all a "natural born citizen" is, a citizen who was born that way, and wasn't naturalized.

Ted Cruz was also a citizen at birth.

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