Cruz Birth Certificate

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8. Incorrect. Canada will not rescind the citizenship if it leaves the person stateless. So if Canada

HAS rescinded his citizenship, it has determined that he is, indeed, a citizen of some other country.

It has been rehashed endlessly in past conversations, but here's something I posted way back then:

Since Cruz had Canadian citizenship through a Canadian birth and a Canadian birth certificate, I don't think it's crazy to ask to provide documentation of his American citizenship. There ARE certain restrictions -- a baby born abroad should be registered with the US embassy and get that certificate. For babies born abroad of a US citizen mother, there are other restrictions -- the mother, for example, has to have lived in the US for 5 uninterrupted years after the age of 14, before the birth of the child. IOW, US citizenship is not always automatic even if one or both parents are US citizens.

Now, I'm sure the St Dept is pretty liberal about providing the FS-240 (Birth of US Citizen Abroad) to older children and maybe even adults if the circumstances of the birth are clear, but still, it doesn't answer the question: what paperwork did his parents use to get him his US passport? If I were he, I'd just produce that paper and renounce my Canadian citizenship. My bet is that he can't produce that paper. Maybe his parents are total ninnies with paperwork, maybe they're hoarders, who knows.

But it's still a strange situation and any normal politician would have squared up and produced his paperwork to destroy all the speculation immediately. Cruz? He still hasn't produced anything except his revocation papers, which, if you'll remember, he said he was consulting his lawyers about. Riiiiight. The form is 4 pages, one of which is a signature page, and all he needed to do was fill that out, enclose a check for $100 Canadian, and Bob's your uncle. But it took him A WHOLE YEAR to get this done. This idiot can't find his asshole with a flashlight.

The simple fact that he won't produce anything but a passport is quite strange. The fact that he acted like getting a renunciation was a big deal and took a year with the lawyers on it -- also very strange. Cruz strikes me as the kind of person who sends raving all caps letters to the newspaper every day about the local utility company or something. He's completely unable to focus on what needs to be done, take the few small steps to do it, and then finish it. Everything is a fight with big bad govt or big bad liberals.