If we're going to have to revisit this; Cruz's mother was an American citizen married to a Cuban born husband. She had reached the age of majority, meaning that she could pass along her citizenship to her child.
Barack Obama's mother was only 19 when he was born and she was not legally married to her Kenyan husband. He was already married so any marriage between him and Ann Dunham was invalid. If you assume that Obama was born in Kenya. Obama was born in 1961, under 1961 citizenship laws. There was a major change in citizenship laws in 1968. Cruz was born in 1970.
And it was more than the dust jacket of a book. It was on his entrance forms for Occidental college. He listed himself as a foreign exchange student from Kenya. Maybe that is why he has hidden his other records.
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
If this was the case, why was a divorce required?
Here's a little something for you, from the citizenship laws
"A child who is born to U.S. citizen parents (or in some cases, to only one U.S. citizen parent) outside the U.S. may automatically become a U.S. citizen. This is called "acquisition" of U.S. citizenship.
When this child marries and has children, those children may also acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, regardless of where they are born. This means that you can, in effect, get U.S. citizenship through a grandparent, even if your parent never realized that he or she was a U.S. citizen."
And this:
"Child Born Between December 24, 1952, and November 13, 1986
If at the time of your birth, both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one had a prior residence in the U.S., you automatically acquired U.S. citizenship, with no other conditions for keeping it.
If only one parent was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the U.S. for at least ten years, and at least five of those years must have been after your parent reached the age of 14.
If your one U.S. citizen parent is your father and your birth was illegitimate (took place while your parents weren’t married), the same rules apply, provided you were legally legitimated (your father acknowledged paternal responsibility) prior to your 21st birthday and you were unmarried at the time of legitimation.