Sen Ted Cruz... Scarry

[StrictMasterD]

My undersanding is the age of the Mother is not important, what is is if she was a Nutral Born Citizen of the US if so that is all the is required
Wouldl ovew to see Ted Cruz Certificate to see if he is in fact a US Citizen, if they can Birther Obama lets do the same with Cruz, better yet letsdeal with issues concernig this country

Not 'maintain' - to pass it to their children. Simply being the child of a US citizen is not, in itself, sufficient to make you one - which, apart from anything else, is why there is a green card category for 'children of US citizens' - because they are not all automatically citizens themselves.

The requirement at the time was that the mother, to quote USCIS, must have been: "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".



Wrong, as explained above: they would be citizens provided their mothers met the residency requirements. Since she was 18 at the time, Obama's mother could not possibly have met the requirement to be resident in the US for five years after the age of 14. Presumably Cruz's mother does meet the requirement - the US consulate would have checked at the time, otherwise they would have needed to apply for a green card for him when moving back to the US.

[js207]

My undersanding is the age of the Mother is not important, what is is if she was a Nutral Born Citizen of the US if so that is all the is required

In which case, your understanding is not correct: I've already quoted the legal requirement above. How do you think a mother aged 18 could have lived in the US for at least five years since the age of 14? I've already explained that being a citizen herself is not enough to make her children citizens as well.