By Richard Winger Aaron Blake has written this article about the fact that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father and a U.S. citizen mother. The article discusses the part of Article II that says presidents must be “natural-born.” Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Although the article asserts that U.S. Senator John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone, there is strong evidence that he was born in Colon, Panama, which was never part of the Canal Zone although it was virtually surrounded by the Zone.
UPDATE: see this U.S. News & World Report …read more