FBN GOP Debate: TYT Coverage

[WhoIsNumberNone]

The Young Turks Summary

Rumors Of Jeb Bush Exiting Presidential Race

Best Line Of ANY Republican Debate

The Biggest Winner

The Biggest Loser

[libodem]

1. It's interesting

About who your foreign born parents vote for being the key to your birth right of citizenship.

Remember the first Iraqi election under US occupation? A big deal was made over counting votes from Iraqi expats who lived in America. It has never been made a big deal since, that has been reported in the news. Seems like the news would remain full of the tally of anyone voting for president in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Jordan, Libia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria. Does that still go on? Are any of the Republican candidates aware of that and do they loath and fear those Muslims? Are expats from Cuba going to send in their votes for Castro?

[maddiemom]

2. I don't quite follow you.

VOTES from foreign born parents are a "key to your birthright of citizenship?" Where do you get that and what are you talking about? Can you explain your entire post? I thought the debate was as to what makes a natural born U.S. citizen.

[libodem]

3. In the first video

Cenk mentions that Cruz's parents voted in the Canadian elections from here, in America. That apparently makes them more Canadian than American with their duel citizenshup.

So by extension I went off on a tangent about the elections in Iraq that were held after we deposed Sadam. There was quite a hubbub about Iranian Americans voting for the new President of Iraq. I've never seen anything like it since. It makes me curious in light of how deportation happy and anti-immigration the Republican candidates seem to be.

[maddiemom]

5. Thanks. I get you now.

[libodem]

6. Glad you asked

My point was pretty obscure.

[maddiemom]

4. But wait just a minute!

My mom was born in 1920 in Canada. BOTH her parents had been born in the U.S. and had emigrated to Canada with family. Her dad's family had settled in with a wheat ranch and lumber mill, and her mom went up to teach school and live with brothers who had emigrated from the U.S. They returned to the U.S. when she was very young (a toddler) and apparently had no problems with their citizenship on either side of the border. My mom was a young, married wife and mother before her birth was ever questioned, other than that she'd worked for British Security during WWII when she'd gone to D.C. with my aunt to apply to the F.B.I. (my aunt was hired as a long-time clerical employee, but my mom sent to the British due to her Canadian birth). Mom let this ride for about another ten years (I don't know why) until an incident (long story) made it necessary for her to go through the whole naturalization process. She had lived in the U.S. for more than thirty years before actually becoming a citizen. Her parents' citizenship had apparently never been a hassle either way. A lot of changes have occurred and Ted Cruz is of an age to be her grandson, but having been born in Canada back in those days, from two U.S. citizens...?