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CH156378CH156378 Posts: 1,539
edited August 2013 in A Moving Train
Ted Cruz was born in Canada
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  • unsungunsung Posts: 9,487
    Irrelevant.
  • JimmyVJimmyV Posts: 19,172
    I feel like I just read the text of a political cartoon but need the image to fully understand what is happening.
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  • CH156378CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    JimmyV wrote:
    I feel like I just read the text of a political cartoon but need the image to fully understand what is happening.
    Picture this caption.
  • KatKat Posts: 4,872
    Mother was born in the U.S.

    That sounds familiar.
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 Posts: 23,303
    so he is a canadian muslim, right?

    bring on the birtherism from the left...

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  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    Worked for bush during his reign of terror.
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    interesting. I always thought you had to be born on US soil to eligible for the big house.
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  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Well no... John McCain was born in Panama and while it was argued he was born at a hospital in some nebulous "US SOIL zone," the hospital he was born in wasn't actually on US ground at the time he was born.

    And Mitt Romney's parents were born in Mexico, thus making them Mexican. Although since he's white, that was kinda over-looked by the birthers who really just care about race and not an actual birth certificate.

    What a "natural born" American is can be interpreted in many ways. I was born in America and my father is an American Citizen but my mother is Canadian and I grew up in Canada. So while I was born in Hartford... am I eligible?

    Who knows. I know that all that "having gay sex on video" probably disqualifies me anyway. so I haven't bothered to look into it.
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,770
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    Well no... John McCain was born in Panama and while it was argued he was born at a hospital in some nebulous "US SOIL zone," the hospital he was born in wasn't actually on US ground at the time he was born.

    And Mitt Romney's parents were born in Mexico, thus making them Mexican. Although since he's white, that was kinda over-looked by the birthers who really just care about race and not an actual birth certificate.

    What a "natural born" American is can be interpreted in many ways. I was born in America and my father is an American Citizen but my mother is Canadian and I grew up in Canada. So while I was born in Hartford... am I eligible?

    Who knows. I know that all that "having gay sex on video" probably disqualifies me anyway. so I haven't bothered to look into it.

    Based on the choices we seem to have available to us in 2016 I think you would be a much better choice!!

    Jasun '16 :D
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Oh, vitriol! Such a delicious topper after lunch. Someone pass me a Tums please ;)

    From immigrationdirect.com (some of this I knew, some I didn't):

    Generally, people are born U.S. citizens if they are born in the United States or if they are born to U.S. Citizens:

    Normally you were a U.S. citizen at birth

    (1) If you were born in the United States:

    * (Including, in most cases, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and after November 4, 1986, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands),

    (2) If you were born abroad to TWO U.S. citizens: and at least one of your parents lived in the United States at some point in his or her life, then in most cases you are a U.S. citizen.

    (3) If you were born abroad to ONE U.S. citizen. In most cases, you are a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true:
    One of your parents was a U.S. citizen when you were born;
    Your citizen parent lived at least 5 years in the United States before you were born; and
    At least 2 of those 5 years in the United States were after your citizen parent's 14th birthday.
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Posts: 10,770
    Only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both citizens of the U.S.) may be president of the United States, though from time to time that requirement is called into question, most recently after Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, was elected governor of California, in 2003. The Constitution originally provided a small loophole to this provision: One needn't have been born in the United States but had to be a citizen at the time the Constitution was adopted. But, since that occurred in 1789, that ship has sailed.
  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Wentworth Miller is gay.

    That's all the good news I need this month.
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