Alberta Birth Certificate: Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz: Cruz was born to a Cuban father and an American mother who ran a seismology company in Calgary. The family returned to the U.S. when Cruz was four. In a bit of delicious irony, he has had to make public his Alberta birth certificate to prove his American credentials through his mothers citizenship. The Republican senator has the backing of the Tea Party, members of which helped foment the controversy over President Barack Obamas birth. In an attempt to quell the controversy, Obama made his Hawaiian birth certificate public. , according to Times Colonist. So he should. The U.S. Constitution says a president must be a natural-born citizen. Cruz will have trouble enough with xenophobic right-wingers who might regard someone born outside of the country as something less than a full citizen. Holding citizenship in two countries would be a definite handicap politically. Calgary-born Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas with presidential aspirations, says he will renounce his Canadian citizenship. For him, its probably the right thing to do, but other prominent U.S. politicians havent found their Canadian roots to be a handicap. Apparently unaware until recently that his birthplace automatically made him a Canadian citizen, Cruz says he will apply to have that citizenship cancelled. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.