Cruz’s father had both Cuban and Canadian citizenship. Did his mother get Canadian citizenship together with his father? If she did, she had to renounce her US citizenship
Posted on | January 8, 2016 | 4 Comments
Ted Cruz was born on December 22, 1970,[3][4] in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to parents Eleanor Elizabeth (Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz.[5][6][7] At the time of his birth, Cruz’ parents were working in the oil business as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling.[6][8][9][10][11] Cruz has said, āIām the son of two mathematicians/computer programmers.ā[12]
Rafael Cruz was born in Cuba, and his father was from the Canary Islands in Spain. Ted Cruz’s mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and is of three quarters Irish and one quarter Italian ancestry.[13][14] His father left Cuba in 1957 to attend the University of Texas at Austin, obtained political asylum in the United States after his four-year student visa expired, and became a Canadian citizen during his eight-year stay in that country.[15] Rafael Cruz ultimately became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2005.[6][16][17][18] His mother earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s.[19] Eleanor and Rafael Cruz divorced in 1997.[20]
Cruz had two older half-sisters from his father’s previous marriage, Miriam Ceferina Cruz and Roxana Lourdes Cruz. Miriam, who had several brushes with the law during the 1990s and 2000s including charges of theft and public intoxication, died of a prescription drug overdose on January 10, 2011.[20] Roxana, who has declined media interviews, is a physician in Texas.[20][21][22] Cruz also had a half-brother, Michael Wilson (1960ā1965), from his mother’s previous marriage. He first learned of him from his mother during his teenage years.[22]
Rafael Cruz moved his family to Texas in 1974.[23]
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January 8th, 2016 @ 1:38 pm
I have some things to give you and I do not want pass on to others at this time. I spent the time today at the Genealogy library in SLC and found out a lot for you and Donald, I will send by way of gmail.
I have to go back tomorrow and check on one thing. You will be totally surprised.
January 8th, 2016 @ 6:24 pm
Ok Steve,
When can you spill your guts to us, were on the same side. We’ll be waiting.
January 9th, 2016 @ 12:01 am
Sounds like Cruz’s parents were pretty messed up.. Both divorced, mother didn’t tell Ted about his brother until he was a teenager? Drug addict sister who killed herself? Moving from country to country?
January 9th, 2016 @ 5:31 am
I believe there was a history of alchoholism