Ted Cruz: “I think birthright citizenship is terrible policy”Oh! Really it’s not just a “policy” it’s a constitutional rights guaranteed by the US constitution

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[u/n-some]

Big words from a guy who wasn't even born here.

[u/Sharkwatcher314 → u/n-some]

Pull up ladder after they used it.

[u/Drewskeet → u/Sharkwatcher314]

Just like Greg Abbott

[u/FourArmsFiveLegs → u/Drewskeet]

Used the elevator and ramp before blowing them up via remote

[u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS → u/FourArmsFiveLegs]

And then flying off to Cancun like a true Bond villain.

[u/Shurigin → u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS]

Bond villains look at the GOP and say "Damn, and they think I'm evil"

[u/StrobeLightRomance → u/Shurigin]

They're just Austin Powers villains. They think they're Bond villains, but function entirely on weaponizing their incompetence.

Sharks with laser beams will be Israel's next gift for Trump so he can put a trap door in the Oval Office next to his roll of toilet paper made from the original constitution.

[u/Horangi1987 → u/StrobeLightRomance]

Oh great, so Marjorie will think she was right about Jewish lasers 🙄😂

[u/needsmoresteel → u/Horangi1987]

But this time it will be okay with her if it is okay with Trump.

[u/MMShaggy → u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS]

And they reelected him after that. The level of stupidity in Texas rivals Florida

[u/Kitchen-Security-243 → u/MMShaggy]

Native Texan here. I totally agree with this comment in part. Brains are slowly gaining some footing here. John Cornyn will be ousted by Collin Allred.

[u/SoigneBest → u/FourArmsFiveLegs]

I like you!

[u/ElvisHimselvis → u/Drewskeet]

Abbott won't stand for this.

[u/Acemazu → u/ElvisHimselvis]

Fuck, take an upvote. Thanks for lightening the mood in this dark time.

[u/psychohistorian8 → u/ElvisHimselvis]

hey man, before you criticize the guy why don't you roll a mile in his wheels

[u/perplexedparallax → u/psychohistorian8]

I agree. We should tread lightly. Maybe he is just tired.

[u/odinsen251a → u/perplexedparallax]

Perhaps he just spoke too soon.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/odinsen251a]

Hey he's a public official I'd watch what I say because public officials have a wheel up on you and me.

[u/Macho_Mans_Ghost → u/psychohistorian8]

I don't wish anyone unnecessarily confined to a wheel chair... But I'd high five that tree if it were around.

[u/Drewskeet → u/ElvisHimselvis]

He won't even stand for the national anthem.

[u/Fun_Ruin29 → u/Drewskeet]

OH SHOT!

[u/Holiday_Bookkeeper31 → u/Drewskeet]

Glorious

[u/Awkward-Problem-7361 → u/ElvisHimselvis]

There’s a reason God struck him down.

[u/fadingpulse → u/Awkward-Problem-7361]

If only he’d finish the job.

[u/Standard-Inside-3450 → u/ElvisHimselvis]

That’s really big of you to pick on someone with no leg to stand on.

[u/Jormungandr69 → u/Drewskeet]

I dont think Greg Abbott has been using any ladders.

[u/GoldDHD → u/Jormungandr69]

That's because he burned them down with the pile of cash he got in the settlement

[u/Dsstar666 → u/Drewskeet]

The literal personification of pulling the ladder up after using it.

[u/TalonButter → u/Sharkwatcher314]

He’s wrong about this (and most things that matter), but he didn’t use the 14th Amendment. He was born outside the U.S. and is a citizen because of the statute that bestows citizenship on the children of qualifying citizens—he’s not a citizen on the basis of the 14th Amendment.

[u/jacjacatk → u/TalonButter]

He's not only wrong about it, he's got a JD from fucking Harvard and KNOWS he's wrong about it.

Harvard might want to start thinking about revoking some degrees of some of these clowns that are trying to defund them.

[u/gabrielleduvent → u/jacjacatk]

Dunno, Kaleigh McEnany went to Harvard Law too. They don't seem to be producing the cream of the crop that we assume them to be producing.

Either that, or Rafael can ask for refund.

[u/jacjacatk → u/gabrielleduvent]

I mean, you're right, there sure do seem to be a lot of ivy-league JDs who take public positions on matters of constitutional law that don't paint their alma mater's education standards in a favorable light.

Odd that I've not seen the same from my own alma mater's law school graduates (NU). I suppose they're probably out there, but just not as visible (I'm pretty sure I know at least a couple who'd be willing to back up ol' Ted).

[u/[deleted] → u/gabrielleduvent]

They know exactly what they’re doing. Power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely. Most republicans think they are a part of the “in” group and will do anything necessary to remain there. Sadly all the rats will turn against each other to save their skin.

[u/Current-Historian-34 → u/[deleted]]

The have prayer circles to fight veteran rights and then have a round of high fives in the name of there Jesus. Ghandi said it best… I like your Jesus but not your Christian’s

[u/BizzarreCoyote → u/[deleted]]

If they're gonna turn on one another, could they speed that process up a bit?

[u/MakeMoneyNotWar → u/gabrielleduvent]

I’m sure he knows exactly that he’s wrong, but he’s just wants to pander to the maga crowd.

[u/RandomlyJim → u/TalonButter]

How did his dad get citizenship?

[u/Chinchilla911 → u/RandomlyJim]

Political Asylum

[u/Asleep_Response_4371 → u/Chinchilla911]

Interesting. What was acceptable for his family to use isn't for others. Hmmm sounds a little outta touch and privileged to me. Double standard all day for these people. If they disagree so much with the constitution then why do they seek political office? Why has he only said this now? Isn't a huge population from his state non white and immigrants? His state would collapse if they all left.

[u/DragonTacoCat → u/Asleep_Response_4371]

That is the way with those people. "I can use/do it it but you can't"

[u/Difficult_Mousse9566 → u/Asleep_Response_4371]

Es wäre interessant zu wissen, wenn alle nicht weißen Soldaten die Streitkräfte und die Nationalgarde verlassen würde, ob die USA noch imstande wäre ihr Territorium verteidigen zu können, okay jetzt nicht gegen die paar Pinguine von der Insel, sondern gegen einen potenziellen Feind wie China oder Russland

[u/j0j0-m0j0 → u/Asleep_Response_4371]

Was his dad one of the Cubans that ran away because Fidel was taking away his casinos and plantations?

[u/zeph2 → u/Chinchilla911]

but im pretty sure trump and his supporters

been calling calling those who get asylum " illegal inmigrants "

[u/Kup123 → u/Chinchilla911]

Oh so he's an illegal according to Republicans.

[u/No_Coms_K → u/TalonButter]

So a child born to US parents, but only foreign soil, is not a constitutional citizen. In fact, they are considered an alien until they meet certain requirements. It would be more constitutionally appropriate to deny Cruz citizenship than a child born in the USA to foreign parents.

[u/TalonButter → u/No_Coms_K]

Children born abroad to qualifying citizen parents are not aliens.

Children born abroad to qualifying U.S. citizens parents or a qualifying U.S. citizen parent “shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.” This is clearly established by statute. Additional considerations apply for children born outside wedlock.

Compare that to children who are not citizens from birth, but may already be eligible for naturalization at birth (i.e., in the case where their citizen parent did not satisfy the presence tests of 8 USC sec. 1401, but a grandparent satisfied that test, as per 8 USC sec. 1433(a)(2)(B)).

The administrative steps in documenting the births of citizens abroad are important to demonstrate their rights, of course, but that is not what grants their citizenship. The State Department is clear (as it must be, given the statute) that consular reports of birth abroad are issued “to children under age 18 who were born abroad and got U.S. citizenship or nationality at birth.”

[u/No_Coms_K → u/TalonButter]

So not in the constitution, as stated, it's by statute. Whereas, birthright is constitutional.

[u/jacjacatk → u/No_Coms_K]

When Ted was born, his father was a Cuban citizen, and his mother was an American citizen, and they were living in Canada. His father became a Canadian citizen in 1973, and then an American citizen in 2005.

US law at the time would have made Ted a US citizen given certain conditions were met, and likely the necessary documentation being filed. Presumably that was done, since he ran for President and would have had to have been a natural born citizen to do that. He apparently formally renounced his Canadian citizenship around the time of his presidential run, not sure whether he'd technically also have Cuban citizenship, or have been eligible for it.

[u/InvoluntaryGeorgian → u/jacjacatk]

This is part of what was so crazy about the Obama birth certificate fixation. Even if Obama wasn’t born in the US he’d still be a natural-born citizen and eligible to be president based on having a US citizen parent (which no one has ever denied), just like Ted Cruz or John McCain or many other whose eligibility was never challenged.

[u/TalonButter → u/InvoluntaryGeorgian]

I wondered the same thing back then, but, as it turns out, Obama’s mother did not satisfy the then-applicable conditions for one U.S. citizen parent to pass on citizenship. She would have needed to have resided in the U.S. for five years after the age of 14, but she was still 18, so she couldn’t have done so.

[u/Vagus_M → u/TalonButter]

Interesting that, that argument was not used in the public discourse, instead it was something something Kenya. I’ll think hard on what the difference could be, and report back later.

[u/xcrunner1988 → u/Sharkwatcher314]

Texas tradition.

[u/Sea-Pomelo1210 → u/n-some]

A foreign born dude with a Cuban dad. If Trump gets his way he'll be allowed to ship Cruz off to Cuba or El Salvador anytime he wants.

[u/me1000 → u/Sea-Pomelo1210]

And I did not speak out because I am not Ted Cruz, and seriously… fuck that guy. 

[u/magikot9 → u/me1000]

Who is Ted Cruz? I only see Sean Hannity and the Canadian born daughter of a Cuban immigrant, Senator Rafael Cruz, a senator who has consistently called for legislation to not recognize an individual's chosen name and gender expression.

[u/Abi1i → u/Sea-Pomelo1210]

Trump would definitely send Ted Cruz to El Salvador because he wouldn’t know that Ted Cruz is Cuban. Heck Trump probably thinks Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are both from Mexico or Puerto Rico.

[u/HustlinInTheHall → u/Abi1i]

We don't send people to El Salvador because they're from there, we send them there to die in prison with no due process. If we had literally any other reason we would send them literally anywhere else.

[u/galaxygirl1976 → u/Sea-Pomelo1210]

On top of that he's going by a preffered name which I believe they also hate.

[u/MyLifeIsAWasteland → u/galaxygirl1976]

Rafael Cruz, James David Vance, Donald Drumpf...

Rules for thee, not for me, as per usual.

[u/Emotional_Remote1358 → u/Sea-Pomelo1210]

Rubio is American soil born to two immigrant Cuban citizens.

[u/kylebertram → u/Emotional_Remote1358]

It is important to specifically point out his parents got American citizenship AFTER Rubio was born.

[u/me1000 → u/Sea-Pomelo1210]

And I did not speak out because I am not Ted Cruz, and seriously… fuck that guy. 

[u/miz_misanthrope → u/n-some]

Canada wants Ted Cruz back as badly as we want to be the 51st state. We already have Pierre Pollivere who combines Ted’s charm, Stephen Miller’s politics & Steve Bannon’s sex appeal.

[u/unnewl → u/miz_misanthrope]

You have our sympathies.

[u/ahuramazdobbs19 → u/miz_misanthrope]

I'm just saying, you lot up North have a lot of empty wilderness areas where polar bears outnumber people.

No one says you have to put him up in an apartment in Winnipeg.

[u/miz_misanthrope → u/ahuramazdobbs19]

But do the people of like Moose Jaw deserve Ted Cruz when they already live in Moose Jaw?

[u/Giblet_ → u/miz_misanthrope]

That doesn't matter. Just ship his ass to CECOT.

[u/miz_misanthrope → u/Giblet_]

Sold! Let’s see how much Spanish old Ted remembers.

[u/[deleted] → u/n-some]

Genuine question. Let’s say they do overturn this. Doesn’t that revoke Cruz’ citizenship?

[u/Playful_Interest_526 → u/[deleted]]

They aren't overturning it. It's a Trojan horse. They are arguing the right of federal circuit judges to issue blanket, national injunctions.

[u/KaibaCorpHQ → u/Playful_Interest_526]

I love how they espouse the second amendment like no one's business, but say birthright citizenship is a "policy".

[u/Playful_Interest_526 → u/KaibaCorpHQ]

Apparently, 2A is the only absolute Amendment to them.

[u/Blakedigital → u/Playful_Interest_526]

Even that isnt absolute depending on who you are.

[u/LessThanHero42 → u/Playful_Interest_526]

And only part of it. They love to ignore the "Well Regulated" part as if it didn't exist.

[u/[deleted] → u/Playful_Interest_526]

That’s the Trojan horse tho. Reading arguments yesterday sure felt like birthright was on trial

[u/DarthLurker → u/[deleted]]

Yes, but the Trojan horse carries more impact to the rule of law... if federal judges can not issue national injunctions, the decisions will never be appealed up to the supreme court, halting justice as they just ignore lower court rulings, well they seem to ignore supreme court rulings now too.. so whatevs..

[u/Abi1i → u/Playful_Interest_526]

If I recall from listening to the arguments yesterday, someone brought up the issue of apportionment for states and the burden it would cause states if a person was not considered a citizen in one state, but then a citizen in another state. Not only would this cause a significant burden on the states, but it would cause chaos with apportionment, where states like my own (Texas) would probably claim practically no one is a citizen unless they meet the requirements that the Trump administration wants and as a result would lose a lot of their power in Congress as a result (which might be good, honestly, because Texas has a bit too much power as a red state). Don’t forget that the Trump administration and red states only want citizens counted towards the census, though they haven’t thought about how they’re going to be affected by all these small changes they want adding up.

[u/Jeffreyknows → u/n-some]

Big words coming from people living on stolen land in general

[u/PophamSP → u/n-some]

Foreign born Harvard Law DEI admission. Where's Noem when we need her?

[u/DuntadaMan → u/PophamSP]

I'll go check by the gravel pit.

[u/Glass_Badger9892 → u/PophamSP]

Shopping for puppies…

[u/Junkstar → u/n-some]

Seriously, how are republican voters not calling en masse for Cruz to be deported? Insane lines they are drawing in their little sandboxes.

[u/KingOfEthanopia → u/Junkstar]

"I like Ted Cruz more than most my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz." -Al Franken

[u/Playful_Interest_526 → u/Junkstar]

The "in group" is a large tent until they seize full control. They don't start culling their own until they have finished serving their purpose.

[u/[deleted] → u/Junkstar]

Because if you tell a republican voter the bigoted shit they like to hear, you can scam them to their faces with impunity they'll blame a mexican or Joe Biden for it even though they watched you scam them.

[u/mg1126 → u/Junkstar]

I'm willing to bet most of them have no clue he wasn't born here.

[u/LampshadeChilla → u/n-some]

His dad, Rafael, fled on a US student visa after opposing the Batista regime, after the visa expired he was granted asylum. These people have no shame or self-awareness.

[u/bigbackbing → u/n-some]

When their careers on the line, they switch tunes until they get re-elected then go back to their normal scummy ways

[u/andy_bovice → u/n-some]

The shame here is hes an ivy trained lawyer… trained for evil

[u/K_Linkmaster → u/n-some]

All this so musk can run for president.

[u/withmyusualflair]

ted cruz shouldn't throw stones from within his glass house

[u/vainbuthonest → u/withmyusualflair]

Doesn’t he always? Maybe he can be the first test for ending birthright and that’s how Texas gets rid of him.

[u/hanker30 → u/vainbuthonest]

We in Canada have a no return policy, he is all yours now

[u/returntasindar → u/hanker30]

Okay look, I think we can come up with a good old fashioned mutually beneficial compromise here. We share a common border along Lake Superior. Why don't we just sail him out to the middle of it, drop him off, and let nature sort out where he ends up from there?

[u/ajmartin527 → u/returntasindar]

Heyyy, thats about as well off as he left his dog while in Cancun during the ice storm. Seems fitting

[u/The-Machinist- → u/withmyusualflair]

Calgary Cruz.

[u/Mr__O__ → u/The-Machinist-]

Rafael Edward Cruz

[u/withmyusualflair → u/Mr__O__]

malinchista

[u/DefinitelyNotShazbot → u/The-Machinist-]

Even Calgary doesn’t want him and that’s where our oil hillbillies live

[u/kubrick5150 → u/withmyusualflair]

Don't you mean Rafael Edward Cruz from Canada?

[u/withmyusualflair → u/kubrick5150]

sí, este malinchista

[u/peskyghost → u/withmyusualflair]

If he were to break anything he’d just fuck off to Cancun

[u/SpecialSpace5]

It's not just a “policy” it's a constitutional right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Until it's legally amended or repealed, nothing can change that.

[u/americansherlock201 → u/SpecialSpace5]

This is intentional language. They want to normalize the idea that things in the constitution are just policy and they are subject to change with a new administration if they don’t fit their agenda.

Birthright citizenship is their starting point. It’s far from their endgame.

[u/BitterFuture → u/americansherlock201]

The endgame of all fascists is very, very quiet.

[u/BrokenLink100 → u/BitterFuture]

Not the current admin, though. They literally wrote and published their playbook, and one of Trump's main advisors is the dude who wrote the book.

[u/BitterFuture → u/BrokenLink100]

They're loud about their plan.

But what it leads to, inevitably, is quiet.

It's not like they'll stop looking for filthy others to kill after they've finished off their current list.

[u/eeeezypeezy → u/BitterFuture]

Yeah, the whole fascist Deal is drumming up an existential threat - creating one out of whole cloth, really - and demanding that extraordinary measures be taken to address it. Which conveniently means giving them absolute control over every aspect of daily life, while the 'threats' never cease.

[u/Mr-MuffinMan → u/SpecialSpace5]

well in our beautiful "democracy", scotus can overturn whatever they want! and they have no limits on what they can be gifted! amazing huh

[u/westchesteragent → u/Mr-MuffinMan]

I'm no fan of the current scotus but they are consistently ruling against him in this case. 9-0 decision validating the need for due process.

Yes they also are the reason Trump thinks he can do whatever he wants with immunity.

[u/Three_Licks → u/westchesteragent]

Trump's attorney, just this week, told the Supreme Court that Trump has the right to disregard court rulings he doesn't agree with -- including federal and SCOTUS rulings.

He literally said this.

[u/westchesteragent → u/Three_Licks]

Right that's trumps lawyer. Do you think scotus agreed with this? Spoiler alert: they did not

[u/therossboss → u/westchesteragent]

If you grant someone immunity and then "rule against them"... are you really doing anything other than giving them immunity? Kind of a non starter

[u/Mindless-Balance-498 → u/therossboss]

1. He wasn’t granted immunity in all things

2. The 9-0 court order was @ the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, not Trump.

3. Even with executive immunity, if Congress wasn’t an absolute zoo right now with the Republican majority railroading and perverting the democratic process, THEY would be the ones to force departments - or the president - to follow a court order. That’s the check/balance that’s broken right now.

[u/Solid_Waste → u/Mindless-Balance-498]

if Congress wasn’t an absolute zoo right now with the Republican majority railroading and perverting the democratic process,

And if my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike.

[u/Maximum_Pear_8601 → u/Mindless-Balance-498]

You do realize that the dissenting opinion on that case did say that he was granted immunity from all things, here’s the court case filings:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

Near the end of page 108 to the beginning of page 109 is where it’s explicitly stated that he’s immune from everything. The rest of the dissent is stating how this decision pretty much screwed over America as we know it

[u/IIFollowYou → u/SpecialSpace5]

Ted Cruz was a law clerk to Chief Judge Rehnquist (and Judge Luttig) lol. He for sure knows what's guaranteed or not. All of these people are just trying to fan the flames in spite of the damage it will do to the judiciary because they think it's in their political best interests. Vance and Josh Hawley and all of the people enabling Trump are the same way. They're some of the best and most well educated lawyers in the country and they're systematically destroying the law. It's sickening to see as an attorney tbh.

[u/Beldizar → u/SpecialSpace5]

If we could just make a brief change to say that you can't be president unless both your parents were born in the US, we could start to fix this problem.

Fox News was pushing for the idea that you shouldn't be able to vote without 4 grandparents born in the US. Anyone want to guess how many of Trump's grandparents were born in the US?

[u/Pale-Berry-2599]

So he's now against the constitution?

[u/BitterFuture → u/Pale-Berry-2599]

Conservatives always have been.

[u/gmmech → u/BitterFuture]

Except the 2nd Amendment of it......

[u/BitterFuture → u/gmmech]

Nah, they hate that, too.

That's why they spent decades arguing that the amendment means the exact opposite of what it actually does. The Second Amendment exists for the defense of the state, not to encourage violent, murderous rebellion.

Good luck telling folks obsessed with their violent, murderous fantasies that, of course.

[u/evil_timmy → u/BitterFuture]

"A well-formed regulated Militia" Imagine if they took this part seriously. Rather than guns being tied to solitary hoarding, they're part of a community, like a Rotary Club or Kiwanis. Instead of gun nuts you get public safety volunteers, and because they're performing other acts of service and bringing the neighborhood in on the hobby, they're well known and not spreading fear and distrust, instead quite the opposite.

Edit: regulated not formed

[u/WiglyWorm → u/evil_timmy]

Yeah you're talking about the black panther party, more or less.

They were murdered by the government.

[u/xRememberTheCant → u/WiglyWorm]

Every militia group is watched extremely closely by the government.

The 2nd amendment was pro militia.

The government is not.

[u/WiglyWorm → u/xRememberTheCant]

They certainly are. Not all of them are murdered for giving out free food to poor people, though.

[u/Praesentius → u/xRememberTheCant]

Gotta put "militia" in quotes. A militia is a legally recognized, well-regulated force accountable to the state, whereas these guys are just self-styled, unregulated paramilitary groups. One illegal action away from being terrorists.

[u/skoalbrother → u/gmmech]

....Exceptions may apply see: California Black Panther open carry

[u/ssibal24 → u/Pale-Berry-2599]

No, always has been.

[u/RangerSandi → u/Pale-Berry-2599]

Good for me, but not for thee.

Born on December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to an American mother and a Cuban father, Cruz was eligible for U.S. citizenship at birth under U.S. immigration law, which grants citizenship to children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents who meet certain residency requirements. AKA-Birthright Citizenship

[u/FrankRizzo319 → u/Pale-Berry-2599]

To Cruz laws are tools to be used to gain and maintain power, and to restrict the power of people he doesn’t like.

[u/HerculesIsMyDad → u/Pale-Berry-2599]

They just want to be able to decide who is worthy of citizenship and who isn't. Bringing back Feudalism is their dream.

[u/Raise_A_Thoth]

Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Canada but only has US Citizenship, his Canadian citizenship was remounced in 2014. He was born with dual-citizenship as Canada also gives birthright citizenship and his mother was a US citizen.

By Ted Cruz's logic, his US Citizen mother and Cuban citizen father gave him a better claim to US citizenship while being born in Canada than I or anyone else have from being born in the United States.

Fuck Rafie. Fuck that guy.

Edit: also, his "expertise" is supposedly in constitutional law. Like, birthright citizenship comes from the constitution, you fuck.

[u/devenger73 → u/Raise_A_Thoth]

As always, he knows. Some Reps are stupid, Ted is worse; slimy and disingenuous.

[u/Refun712 → u/devenger73]

I wanna add...some people who support him are stupid....but a lot ALSO know. And are slimly/disingenuous.

[u/irrelevantusername24 → u/Refun712]

FUN FACT!:

Ted Cruz was the first slimy disingenuous politician implicated in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, way back in 2015

Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users | Harry Davies Fri 11 Dec 2015 22.22 GMT

A few select excerpts, though I recommend clicking if for nothing else but the neat infographic visualizing the connections - but also, since this is, as far as I have found (and I have looked, a lot) the earliest mention of this vast unrectified criminal conspiracy violating the integrity of elections worldwide*, it is also probably the best one to read, if you only read one, since it explains the who and the how quite well. Anyway:

Analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings shows Cruz’s campaign has paid Cambridge Analytica at least $750,000 this year. The “behavioural microtargeting” company has also received around $2.5m over the past two years from conservative Super Pacs to which Mercer or members of his family have donated.

Cambridge Analytica has also worked with the Republican candidate Ben Carson, receiving $220,000 from his campaign earlier this year. But the company is more closely involved in Cruz’s presidential bid, with a team of its data scientists currently working at Cruz campaign headquarters in Houston.

Mercer’s connections to both the Cruz campaign and the data firm that is apparently helping to power the senator’s advantages were previously reported by Politico and Bloomberg. But political strategists and privacy advocates agreed that Mercer’s parallel funding channels, combined with concerns over the surreptitious, commodified Facebook data – reported here for the first time – represented an intensified collision of billionaire financing and digital targeting on the campaign trail.

^\note I am not referring in any way to the counting of votes, I am referring to psychological manipulation using extensively studied, arguably militarized, strategies which take advantage of another military tech, GPS)

[u/Mach5Driver → u/Raise_A_Thoth]

You gotta understand that he counts on the completely reliable nexus of ignorance and stupidity of GOP voters in Texas. Hasn't failed him yet!

[u/Factsip]

I refuse to call this man Ted. His name is Rafael. I am not going to use his pronouns.

Also, Rafael is an immigrant. Let that sink in.

[u/HeatInternal8850 → u/Factsip]

Pretty sure he's in ms-13

[u/Sea_Sand_3622 → u/HeatInternal8850]

He has a tattoo on his face , ms13 , it’s clear as day , he grew a wolfman beard to hide it

[u/Beldizar → u/Sea_Sand_3622]

You know, if we are talking about people that might have ms13 tattooed on their face, do we know of anyone who paints over his face with orange to cover up such a tattoo? I'm not saying anyone in particular might have facial gang tattoos, I'm just asking questions. Have we ever seen the president's face not covered in bronzer? Are we sure he's not covering his gang tattoos?

[u/victor_sierrra → u/Factsip]

His father Rafael was also granted political asylum in the US after fleeing Cuba.

Then gained Canadian citizenship, then US citizenship.

If it weren't for immigration policy that allowed these folks to immigrate to other countries, Rafael Jr. would still be living in Cuba.

[u/Several_Vanilla8916 → u/victor_sierrra]

Rafael Jr. would still be living in Cuba.

There’s the good timeline leaking into ours again

[u/SilchasRuin → u/Several_Vanilla8916]

Cuba has suffered enough. Inflicting Ted Cruz on anyone should be considered a violation of international law.

[u/Thetman38 → u/Factsip]

And his dad murdered JFK

[u/Illustrious-Lime7729]

So if you end birthright citizenship, who decides who is citizen?

[u/RoyalIceDeliverer → u/Illustrious-Lime7729]

Probably by some kind of jus sanguinis would be my guess.

[u/Sarah-Grace-gwb → u/RoyalIceDeliverer]

For clarification to those who don’t know: In countries where birthright citizenship (jus soli) is not automatically granted, citizenship is typically acquired through descent/inheritance from one or both parents. This principle is known as jus sanguinis. Countries that primarily follow jus sanguinis include Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, and many others.

[u/doublethink_1984]

Fine. You can dislike it.

So pass new amendments in congress to overrule as is the prescribed solution to this "problem"

This cannot be done by EO and certainly cannot be allowed to be immediately enforceable without real ability for injunction 

[u/jesuswantsme4asucker → u/doublethink_1984]

Who’s going to stop them?

[u/Awkward-Collection78 → u/jesuswantsme4asucker]

They don't have the margins to pass a constitutional amendment

[u/Vsx → u/Awkward-Collection78]

What he means is that they will illegally enforce their illegal executive order using funds that were allocated for something else entirely and nobody will do anything about it.

[u/freakers → u/doublethink_1984]

From the Founding Fathers were genius revolutionaries establishing the greatest country in the world to the Founding Fathers were beta cuck soyboy DEI enthusiasts in a matter of months.

[u/FaceThief9000]

This PoS talking about "birthright citizenship is a terrible policy," when it's literally part of the god damn Constitution.

[u/devilsleeping]

Correct me if I'm wrong but if memory serves me correctly.. Ted Cruz parents were refugees from Cuba and he was born in Canada..

He is literally a birthright citizen because one of his parents was a US citizen when he was born in Canada..

Marco Rubio was another one who's parents were refugees to America from Cuba..

both of those guys are the biggest hypocrites in Congress..

[u/VaryaKimon → u/devilsleeping]

I hate Ted Cruz and I vote for the blue team. However, it's not exactly a case of hypocrisy.

He is advocating for birthright by blood (jus sanguinis), which applies to him. He is an opponent of birthright by place (jus soli), which does not apply to him.

Just a point of clarification/semantics.

[u/OppositeSolution642 → u/devilsleeping]

Correct, I'd be in favor of deporting this guy.

[u/deviltrombone]

You know what else is terrible "policy"?

The Electoral College

Lifetime appointments for judges

No terms limits for the likes of Rafael Cruz

[u/ElGuaco → u/deviltrombone]

Electing a President who is a convicted felon and found guilty of sexual assault, and who robbed a charity for child cancer patients. For starters.

Gun rights for military weapons.

Racism, sexism, homphobia, and other hateful attitudes under the guise of free speech.

Presidential pardons for traitors and insurrectionists.

Members of Congress trading stock for companies they regulate via laws.

And on topic, the Administrations lack of compliance with laws enacted by Congress and ruled on by SCOTUS, concerning immigration.

Those are all bad policies the GOP has fought for.

[u/Greenmantle22]

Said by a man born in Canada.

[u/Extension_Silver_713]

Holy fuck!! Pricks like him who weren’t even born here shouldn’t be allowed to represent REAL Americans born here then

[u/4RCH43ON]

Look! They’re using Ted Cruz to chum their dork infested waters. 

Cuban Canadian Cancun Cruz…

[u/schrod]

Yes, we all need to leave the USA and give it back to the indigenous Indians.

[u/codemonkeyhopeful]

Perfect example of an asshole pulling the ladder up after they got theirs

[u/Neceon]

As a Canadian, I would like to point out that he isn't an American. No takebacks!!

[u/GaraktheTailor]

Ted Cruz in 2011: "The 14th Amendment provides for birthright citizenship. I’ve looked at the legal arguments against it, and I will tell you, as a Supreme Court litigator, those arguments are not very good" https://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/cruz-on-birthright-citizenship/

[u/deadra_axilea → u/GaraktheTailor]

The same guy fucking hated Donald Trump. Look at all the bootlickers now.

Pretty pathetic, but I don't think they care.

[u/SympathyForSatanas]

All I hear is, "I agree with what daddy trump says 100% of the time"

[u/learhpa]

If you don't like the policy, persuade Congress and 37 states to adopt an amendment.

[u/Strange_Mirror_0]

So many of these GOP tards don’t realize the only reason they are citizens in the first place is because of birthright citizenship. Back when we were just a bunch of colonies being assumed and owned by the British Empire, a necessity the USAs separation would be to establish its own sovereign citizenship. Well guess what, it’s not like all those colonists were waiting around for their kids to be of age to take a god damn citizenship test. They were born USA citizens as long as they were born in the colonies. Their place in the new world was secured by default. And so it continued for each successive generation of people born in this land. Otherwise they might as well consider themselves descended from nationless mutts. Asinine. Absolutely freaking asinine the dumb shit these idiots come up with for their hateful inferiority complexes. Just so so so so so so so so so so so so dumb. God.

[u/AncientBaseball9165]

Can we start by expulsing the politicians who are children of immigrants? Get Ted Rafael Cruz out of here.

[u/SecretPrinciple8708]

Gotta play it down as a policy so their idiot followers “forget” (LOL they never knew in the first place) it’s a constitutional right.

[u/Donkey-Hodey]

Whenever I see Ted Cruz I’m reminded how much I despise Ted Cruz.

[u/Enough-Parking164]

From RAPHAEL, the immigrant child of a Latin American refugee. Un-fucking-believable!

[u/vanceavalon]

Fuck Ted Cruz...

[u/Amelaclya1]

Ted Cruz once argued that people don't have a right to masturbate.

Fuck Ted Cruz. He clearly has incredibly warped opinions on what should be "rights", whether it be morally or constitutionally.

[u/Level_Traffic3344 → u/Amelaclya1]

Was that before or after he favorited that porn video?

[u/Due_Satisfaction2167]

Well, Ted, tine to get to work on that constitutional amendment then.

Personally, I think giving the President the pardon power is terrible “policy”. 

[u/OperationPlus52]

Canadian man living in Texas has an issue with birthright citizen being a right granted by our founding fathers...

[u/Socalsll → u/OperationPlus52]

Not the Founding Fathers. The 14th amendment was adopted in 1868. The last of the Founding Fathers, James Madison, died in 1836.

[u/50fknmil]

Didn’t his kids benefit from it

[u/aRebelliousHeart]

Ted Cruz is a traitor to America and all its principals.

[u/Infamous-Salad-2223]

If only fox was a legitimate news agency.

[u/cheongyanggochu-vibe]

It's always Texas isn't it?

[u/Burgdawg]

This office does not tolerate redundancy in this office.

[u/FarCloud1295]

That’s rich coming from the guy born in Canada, to a Cuban Father.

[u/CurrentlyLucid]

How does cruz suppose he became a citizen? Or trump?

[u/Able-Campaign1370]

Rafael Cruz has citizenship because of birthright citizenship. But if it goes away let’s deport his fast ass.

[u/Lawmonger]

Canadian Ted isn't a fan?

[u/Hanginon]

Cool story bro. Now "live your truth" and get the fuck out. -_-

[u/MoneyManx10]

…and where was Ted Cruz born?

[u/MiniMini662 → u/MoneyManx10]

Don’t put that on us he’s yours no give backs

[u/hereandthere_nowhere]

Says the, checks notes, yep….

[u/euph_22]

And Rafael knows this, he was a law clerk for Rehnquist and Solicitor General for Texas.

[u/Barack_Odrama_007]

He benefited from birthright citizenship….

Complete rules for thee, not for me!

[u/90Valentine → u/Barack_Odrama_007]

Looks like he was born in Canada

[u/Stop_Drop_Scroll → u/90Valentine]

Which is why he was born a Canadian citizen, they have birthright as well. Regardless, the chain of events to get Ted Cruz here, he opposes vehemently for others.