Ted’s mama, Eleanor, was an American citizen who hailed from Delaware.
His daddy, Rafael, was a citizen of Cuba who had left his native land in 1957 on a four-year student visa—just a few years after a short stint fighting alongside
The 43-year-old Texas senator is really a Canuck, born in Calgary during the region’s oil boom era.
The senator claims not to have known about his dual citizenship until he read about it in the Dallas Morning News on August 18. As Cruz explained it, his mother once told him he had to claim Canadian citizenship to have it. And why on earth would he ever do that? In reality, Canadian citizenship, like American citizenship, is automatically conferred on anyone born in the country. So Cruz had it whether he wanted it or not—and he could, in fact, have been considered a Canadian anchor baby.
No matter. Within 24 hours of the news breaking, Cruz had fired off an official statement reassuring fans: “Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship. Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. Senator, I believe I should be only an American.”
So to recap: Like Barack Obama,
only one of Cruz’s parents was an American citizen at the time of his birth.
Unlike Obama,
Cruz’s birth certificate clearly shows that he was not born in the country of which he now aspires to become commander in chief.
Also unlike Obama,
Cruz’s father has undisputed past ties to an aggressive, long-standing enemy of the United States government.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/31/ted-cruz-s-canadian-panic.html