Trump: The 14th Amendment Won’t Hold Up In Court

[JDPriestly]

69. Do you read that to mean that they have to stay in the country?

Or do you read that to mean that they are required to follow the laws of this country and appear if called into court?

A person can be born in the US, travel overseas and still retain citizenship. There is no requirement that a person's parent be a citizen, just that the person is born in the US.

My children were born overseas and obtained American citizenship because I am a citizen.

As for people having two citizenships, I do not know if it is still true, but years ago, the Greek government did not recognize a renunciation of citizenship. I know another person who was naturalized in our country by virtue of his parents naturalization, returned to the country of his birth and discovered that he was still a citizen of the country of his birth. He had dual citizenship. In fact, today, many people have dual citizenship, and I don't think that American law prohibits it.

We purposely made it easy for people to become citizens at the time the 14th Amendment was written.

Is Ted Cruz an American citizen in your view? What is the story on his citizenship?