TED CRUZ MUST SHOW NATURALIZATION PAPERS TO KEEP HIS U.S. SENATE SEAT

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58. This is partially true. It is NOT true that dual US-Canadian citizenships has always been

legal, though. The US OKed dual citizenship in 1967. Canada OKed dual citizenships with the US in 1977.

If you look at the timeline of the Cruz family, if Mrs. Cruz did become a Canadian citizen before 1977, it looks like she would have had to give up her US citizenship under Canadian law. Now, there's nothing that says she applied for Canadian citizenship, except perhaps that her husband said they did, and that he actually did. Still, it's not crazy to think that there's something weird going on here.

As I've maintained in past posts about this subject, all questions about Ted Cruz's citizenship could be resolved in 30 seconds if he or his parents would produce the US Embassy form for children born abroad of a US citizen. The fact that he has not produced this leads any normal person to conclude it does not exist. If it is lost, a simple request to the State Department will gain him a replacement copy. He hasn't done that. The State Dept. has made it even easier than that -- the form can be requested and issued retroactively, even years after the child's birth, but Ted hasn't done that, either. He is relying solely on his possession of a US passport to confirm that he is a citizen. He got that passport when he was 14 years old, in about 1984. How did he get that US passport? The govt does require some serious proof that you are a US citizen before they issue you a passport. What did Cruz's parents use? No one knows. It could not have been his Canadian birth certificate, obviously. And, since Ted has been in the US since he was 4 and did not get a passport until he was 14, what did his parents use to enroll him in school, etc.? The usual proof is a birth certificate.

Anyway, there are legitimate questions, although they are generally not the questions asked in some of those crazy links. It's not crazy to think there's something strange with all this. Cruz's parents could easily have resolved all these issues for their son, but they haven't. A rational person can conclude that they can't, for some unknown reason.