Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Another nonsense birther debate

Ted Cruz, Canadian, for president.

Two words end the discussion: George Romney.

Romney was born July 8, 1907, in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico. In 1968, Romney was for a time the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nominee.

“Questions were occasionally asked about Romney's eligibility to run for President owing to his birth in Mexico, given the ambiguity in the United States Constitution over the phrase ‘natural-born citizen’". – Wikipedia.

Romney’s family returned to the United States shortly after the 1910 revolution began in Mexico.

A Congressional Research Service report, November 2011:

“There have been legitimate legal issues raised concerning those born outside of the country to U.S. citizens. The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term ‘natural born’ citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship ‘by birth’ or ‘at birth,’ either by being born ’in’ the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship ‘at birth.”

All that noise from birthers who claimed Barrack Obama was not a natural-born citizen was uninformed, don’t confuse me with facts, noise.

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