HECHO EN AMERICA
- Eddie Perry
- Sep 27
- 1 min read
Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A Republican Party member, whose father was born and raised in Cuba. Mr. Cruz began using the moniker "Ted" at age 13.
Mr. Ted Cruz’s book, “A Time For Truth,” is part memoir and part political mission statement. He writes at length about the influence his father’s journey to the United States has had on him. Growing up in Cuba and fighting against the Fulgencio Batista regime in the 1950s.
He has said, that when he was a child, his mother told him that she would have to formally request Canadian citizenship for him, so he and his family had always assumed he was not a Canadian citizen.
In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that he had dual Canadian-American citizenship, he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014.
Senator Cruz has taken a "hard-line stance" on immigration issues. During the 2014 border crisis, he opposed comprehensive immigration reform. He advocated for an increase in skilled foreign workers entering the United States using H-1B visas.
In February 2018, he was the sole senator to oppose a Republican motion to begin debate on legislation intended to resolve the question of what to do with DREAMers. He has also called for the repeal of the clause of the 14th amendment that grants citizenship to those born in the United States.
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