Cruz Preparing To Renounce Canadian Citizenship

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

CAITLIN MACNEAL – DECEMBER 29, 2013, 2:11 PM EST

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has hired lawyers to help him renounce his Canadian citizenship, the Dallas Morning News reported Saturday.

“I have retained counsel that is preparing the paperwork to renounce the citizenship," he told the Dallas Morning News.

Cruz said that he should complete the process by the end of 2014.

The Texas lawmaker has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada, since he was born to two American citizens living in Canada.

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[Berlum]

1. Once a Canadian, always a Canadian

Cruz cannot hide his frostbitten brainpan.
His birf certificate -- longform -- makes his forIEGNess inesCAPEable.

[BootinUp]

2. If I come into some money

I will contribute to his run for President. It would only help the Democratic candidate if he were to run.

[Jackpine Radical]

34. People said that about Reagan.

I remember thinking, when Reagan got the R Nom, "Thank God--he's about the only Republican Carter can beat!"

[BootinUp]

36. I don't fear Cruz in that scenario.

I would suggest that the times are so different that there is no way a RW Teabagger will win against a good Dem now. In 1980 people were easy to convince for trying something different and Reagan took advantage of that. The Teabagger way cannot be characterized like that now. Another thing is Carter was quite weak due to the economy and Iran, we will not be in the same situation in 2016.

[onehandle]

3. What about his Communist Cuba Citizenship? nt

[DonViejo]

4. I don't believe both of his parents were American citizens

at the time of his birth in Canada. The old man was still a Cuban citizen and his Mother an American.

[onehandle]

6. Clearly he needs to renounce his life-long devotion to the Castro family. nt

[matt819]

10. Where's the "Report of Birth Abroad" from the nearest US Consulate

If he doesn't have this form, then he may not have taken the necessary steps to retain/recover his American citizenship. And if renounces his Canadian citizenship, he could be stateless. Plus his kids (perish the thought that such fruits of his loin exist) won't be able to take advantage of lower cost university education.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

30. If he was born in a hospital, I seriously doubt the paperwork wasn't done

Calgary has been a defacto American exclave for more than a century. The forms would have been stuck right in his parents face.

[mazzarro]

19. Yes indeed - I was about to post same thing about his parents that ...

IIRC, they were not two US citizens living in Canada at the time of his birth. Father was still a Cuban then.

[DonViejo]

20. BINGO!!!...

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta,[2][10] where his parents, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson Darragh[10][11][12][13][14][15] and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz,[13][14] were working in the oil business.[16][17] His parents owned a seismic-data processing firm for oil drillers.[13][18] Cruz's father, who was born in 1939 in Matanzas, Cuba,[13][14] as Robert T. Garrett of the Dallas Morning News has described, "suffered beatings and imprisonment for protesting the oppressive regime"[13][18] of dictator Fulgencio Batista. He fought for communist revolutionary Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution[19][20] when he was 14 years old, but "didn't know Castro was a Communist." A few years later he became a staunch critic of Castro when "the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent."[13][21] The elder Cruz fled Cuba in 1957 at the age of 18, landing in Austin[18] to study at the University of Texas, knowing no English and with $100 sewn into his underwear.[22][23] His younger sister fought in the counter-revolution and was tortured by the new regime.[20] He remained regretful for his early support of Castro, and emphatically conveyed this remorse to his young son over the following years.[13][20] The elder Cruz worked his way through college as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour,[12] earning a degree in mathematics.[18] Cruz's father today is a pastor in Carrollton, Texas,[11] a Dallas suburb, and became a U.S. citizen in 2005.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

[Cha]

25. "A pastor".. I can imagine the special of

hate that emanates from that pulpit.

[savalez]

5. I'm sure Canada is happy about that. n/t

[Botany]

7. Dear Canada

Please keep him.

love,
America

********
Cruz is gonna run for POTUS????

[Historic NY]

8. Sen. Ted "Carnival" Cruz (R-Canada).

[nolabear]

11. .

RUN TED RUN!!

[freshwest]

17. Or 'Sen. Ted "Carnival" Cruz (R-Cuba-Canada)'? Buncha dang furriners! USA! USA!

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Yes, that's an example of guilt by association. Now to find something that will sink his battleship.

[ifyousayso]

22. In poor taste, IMHO

[George II]

26. I agree, was just going to say that myself

[Agnosticsherbet]

9. Another step on his road to ruin, uh I mean road to run for the White House.

There is not enough lipstick to make the Cruz Pig acceptable to the majority of Americans.

[SCVDem]

12. Renounce eh?

Would he be so quick to renounce his American citizenship if it were politically expedient?

[freshwest]

18. You betcha! He comes from a long line of quitters, turncoats and traitors! n/t

[JEB]

13. Canada is moving up in the world.

[jsr]

14. Lawyers? All he has to do is fill out this form and submit $100 online:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/citizen/CIT0302E.pdf

[Nay]

38. zackly. He's such a blowhard. He acts like it's such a big deal -- why

didn't he do it ages ago, when it first came up?

And, as a dual citizen myself, I can guarantee that the Canadian govt. will process his paperwork in a day and overnight that shit back to him, saying "good riddance."

[jsr]

39. Because he's about to make a huge and difficult personal sacrifice for America

[Scalded Nun]

15. Exactly

Timed and planned.

And the ridiculous rationale that he thought his Canadian citizenship would go away if he just ignored it is so typically lame. His followers will believe it, though.

Ranks right up there with the renunciation of Bachmann's pulling the plug on Swiss citizenship.

Fucking evil bastard.

[mitty14u2]

16. Cruz Father: Ted Cruz "Anointed" To "Bring the Spoils of War to the Priests

[ifyousayso]

21. Cruz is too extreme to become President

There aren't enough right-wing wackos to elect Cruz President of the United States, although there might be enough in Texas to elect him governor.

[Cha]

23. I'm sure Canada didn't want their

idiot back.

[truebluegreen]

24. Cruz' father wasn't a citizen when he was born,

in fact, he didn't become a citizen until 2005.

http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-board-tirade/2013/11/ted-cruz-hypocrisy/

So could he be a triplet? Canadian/Cuban/American? Inquiring minds want to know.

[George II]

28. It's possible, depending upon Cuba's laws regarding citizenship....

....I'm clearly a citizen of the US and Canada (one Canadian parent, one American parent), and there's speculation that I may qualify for British citizenship too since the Canadian parent had Canadian/British citizenship.

[Lasher]

42. He's not a Cuban citizen.

Cuba does not allow dual citizenship.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Frostback?

[Tom Rinaldo]

29. Has anyone actually asked Cruz to his face on camera:

If Obama actually was born in Kenya to an American mother, would that disqualify him from being President?

[MiniMe]

31. "born to 2 American citizens living in Canada"

I thought his father was Cuban??

[Mz Pip]

32. Another PR move by Cruz.

This is just another way for him to keep his name in the news. It's completely irrelevant but Fox will be talking it up for a while.

[treestar]

41. Exactly

Does having another citizenship even disqualify him? He doesn't even really have to do it.

[blkmusclmachine]

33. The Cruz klan also lived in Cuba. Does Teddy have Cuban citizenship, too?!?!

[neverforget]

35. Quitter.

[Marrah_G]

37. I am sure Canada is grateful

[Ganja Ninja]

40. Can't you just hear that collective cry from up north "Oh no not that!"

Me neither.

[Orsino]

43. Senator Cruz delights an entire nation.

He really is dreamy.