Cruz pushed for NOAA cuts days before Texas flooding

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5. The last time this came up as part of the rebirth of the GOP loon "birtherism" nonsense

he ended up being "forced" (after the calling out his hypocrisy) to officially renounce his Canadian citizenship.

Ted Cruz Renounces Newly Discovered Canadian Citizenship

By Nolan Feeney
June 10, 2014 7:02 PM EDT


Texas Senator (and possible 2016 presidential hopeful) Ted Cruz has formally given up his Canadian citizenship, about nine months after learning he had it.

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Cruz intended to give up his Canadian citizenship, which was not a secret, after The Dallas Morning News first brought it to his attention — to the surprise of him and his family — last August.

“Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American,” said Cruz, who was born in the Canadian province of Alberta, at the time.

Like U.S. law, Canadian law dictates that anyone born in Canada becomes a Canadian citizen automatically. Babies born in non-U.S. countries to at least one American parent are entitled to American citizenship as well. The U.S. Constitution requires presidents to be “natural born” citizens, which is commonly believed to include Americans born with the right to citizenship, even if they were not born on American soil specifically.

And note this from above -

The U.S. Constitution requires presidents to be “natural born” citizens, which is commonly believed to include Americans born with the right to citizenship, even if they were not born on American soil specifically.

The highlighted portion in the above came into play 6 years earlier with John McCain, who was an "Army Brat" born on a base in Panama (and even in that case, he was not actually born "on the base", which is considered "American territory" like a U.S. Embassy, but at some off-base facility). Although McCain didn't engage in the birtherism crap, the GOP voters embraced it and had to be stopped dead in their tracks with the presentation of the facts of a McCain "exception" to what they defined as "natural born citizen", while they were ridiculously attacking Obama, who was born IN the state of Hawai'i, which had officially become a state a few years before he was born, TO an American citizen mother from Kansas.