Politico
By Katie Glueck
August 21, 2015
Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday fired back at Jeb Bush, who a day earlier
suggested the senator, who was born in Canada to a son of a Cuban
immigrant and American-born mother,
was the beneficiary of birthright citizenship.
“I
appreciate Governor Bush’s concern. I would note it seems he’s having a
problem and getting confused between legal immigration and illegal
immigration,” Cruz told reporters
here ahead of his soapbox speech at the Iowa State Fair. “With regard
to legal citizens, I’m a United States citizen because my mother was a
United States citizen, born in Wilmington, Delaware. And it has been the
law since the beginning of the country that
the children of American citizens born here or abroad are American
citizens by birth.”
Cruz,
whose father came to the U.S. from Cuba, is advocating the repeal of
birthright citizenship protections for the children of illegal
immigrants, a position highlighted
this week after Donald Trump promoted the idea in his controversial
immigration plan.
A
day earlier, Bush suggested in New Hampshire that Cruz was the
beneficiary of the broader birthright citizenship protection clause of
the 14th Amendment. Bush opposes
altering that language.
“Now,
if people are here legally, they have a visa, and they have a child
who’s born here, I think that they ought to be American citizens,” he
said. “People like Marco
Rubio, by the way, that’s how he came. You know, so to suggest that we
make it impossible for a talented person like that not to be a candidate
for president — or Ted Cruz. I mean, I think we’re getting a little
overboard here, and we’re listening to the emotion
rather than to the reality of this.”
Cruz
said on Friday, “It seems Governor Bush has that confused with the very
different notion that someone who comes here illegally should not have
the law grant automatic citizenship to their children if they are here illegally.”
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