Per the Constitution, Rafael Eduardo Cruz CANNOT Run for President!

As stated in the constitution:


  • Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
  • No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Qualifications for the Office of President of the United States

What is a natural born citizen?

  • Anyone born inside the United States *
  • Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
  • Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
  • Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
  • Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
  • Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
  • Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
  • A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Constitutional Topic Citizenship - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

It is explicitly clear that Rafael Eduardo Cruz, the son of a close personal friend and comrade of Fidel Castro, can never be the lawful President of the United States of America.

Let's wait til after he get's the GOP nomination ;)
By then it'll be too late!!! :eek:

Well, there are about 40-45% of the population that will vote for the GOP nominee regardless. But the undecideds might be interested in this little morsel. And I'm sure that Garry Trudeau will get some mileage out of a talking floppy-eared hat.
 
As stated in the constitution:


  • Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1
  • No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Qualifications for the Office of President of the United States

What is a natural born citizen?

  • Anyone born inside the United States *
  • Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
  • Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
  • Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
  • Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
  • Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
  • Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
  • A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Constitutional Topic Citizenship - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

It is explicitly clear that Rafael Eduardo Cruz, the son of a close personal friend and comrade of Fidel Castro, can never be the lawful President of the United States of America.


--LOL

you certainly hope so

--LOL
 
A citizen of the United States is either a natural born citizen or a naturalized citizen. Cruz was a natural born citizen; he was not
naturalized. There are two reasons why: one is the Constitution and the other is the applicable immigration law regarding citizenship.

Article II, section 1 of the Constitution states: "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President." At the time of the Constitution, Emer Vattel’s Law of Nations was how “natural born” was defined. In The Venus in 1814, Chief Justice Marshall defined what “natural born” meant using The
Law of Nations: "a child born of U.S. parents, or a U.S. father born in the U.S., and for a child born of U.S. parents in foreign soil."

This is the meaning that was used in the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause that has been twisted and beaten into an unrecognizable ideological and political plaything by politicians and the Supreme Court.

The law at the time of Cruz’s birth according to the Customs and Immigration Service:

One parent is a U.S. citizen at the time of birth and the birthdate is before November 14, 1986 but after October 10, 1952

The parents are married at the time of birth and the U.S. citizen parent was physically present in the U.S. or its territories for a period of at least ten years at some time in his or her life prior to the birth, at least five of which were after his or her 14th birthday. If the U.S. citizen parent spent time abroad in any of the following three capacities, this can also be counted towards the physical presence requirement:

Serving honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces; Employed with the U.S. Government; or Employed with certain international organizations. Additionally, time spent abroad by the U.S. citizen parent while the U.S. citizen parent was the unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person who meets any of the three conditions listed above can also be counted.​
Nowhere can you find the term 'natural born Citizen' in the 14th Amendment.

I am referring to the doctrine of jus sanguinis, which was the intent of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
 

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