Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says he will renounce any Canadian citizenship he may have after a newspaper reported he was likely a dual citizen because he was born in Calgary, Alberta to an American mother.
“Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship,” Cruz said. “Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator; I believe I should be only an American.”
The debate arose when the possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, in a throwback to the debate over President Obama’s citizenship, released his birth certificate to The Dallas Morning News.
Unlike the 2008 flare-up over Obama’s nationality, few are challenging what the birth certificate shows — in this case, that Cruz was born to an American mother in Calgary, Canada, in 1970.
The newspaper cited legal scholars in asserting Cruz is technically a U.S. and a Canadian citizen, since Canadian law confers citizenship to most the moment they are born on Canadian soil.
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