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Friday on HBO’s “Real Time” during the online-only “Overtime” segment, Rep. Alan Grayson (R-FL) doubled down on his threat to sue if Sen. Ted Cruz (R-FL) is the eventual Republican presidential nominee over Cruz’s ability to fulfill the constitutional obligations

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s comments about whether or not Cruz is a “natural born” citizen and able to run for President of the United States–suggesting that Democrats are the ones prompting Trump to question Cruz’s citizenship.

A correct originalist reading of the Natural Born Clause and instead compels the conclusion that Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen under Article II of the Constitution, and therefore eligible.

Donald Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Thursday night that he believes Sen. Ted Cruz should get a declaratory judgment from a federal court, ruling that Cruz is a natural born citizen eligible to run for president. What Trump may not know—but which his lawyers should have told him—is that Cruz can only get such a ruling if Trump sues him first.

The Obama administration might hold a grudge against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he repeatedly questioned the president’s birth certificate, but it seems willing to join Trump in questioning Ted Cruz.

Conservative analyst and author of “Adios America” Ann Coulter weighed in on the recent news about GOP frontrunner Donald Trump calling into question Sen. Ted Cruz’s birthright status, since Cruz was born in Canada.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump attacked his main internal rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), on Tuesday, noting that Cruz’s Canadian birth could be “very precarious” for Republicans: “Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’”

Amnesty activists are engaged in a new effort to encourage immigrants in the U.S. to naturalize and register to vote.

The Obama administration is encouraging the 8.8 million eligible lawful permanent residents to become U.S. citizen with efforts aimed at raising awareness about the process and pressing more immigrants to naturalize. The citizenship agency released two versions of a video: one in English and one in Spanish.

Democrat senators today sided with President Barack Obama in the growing conflict between the president and other federal and state officials on how to deal with Syrian refugees in the aftermath of ISIS’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

Veterans Day is Wednesday and the Obama administration is marking the holiday this week by hosting nearly 130 naturalization ceremonies across the country.

Judicial Watch has sued the Obama administration for documents related to its recent campaign urging permanent residents to become naturalized U.S. citizens, the conservative government accountability group announced Thursday.

Foreigners who want to become U.S. citizens don’t have to change their attitudes or beliefs, President Barack Obama said in a new video. Neither Obama’s speech, not the accompanying website, suggest that new citizens should be proud of their new nation’s culture and history

More than 36,000 immigrants will become citizens over the next seven days, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Thursday.

“That’s right, apply for citizenship and you can vote for whoever you want to vote for, and you could even vote against the guy who called your whole ethnic group rapists, murderers and drug-dealers,” Gutiérrez said in a speech Thursday on the House floor. “That kind of ugly, un-American attack is moving people to apply for citizenship and moving citizens to become voters,” he added.

The Obama administration is launching a new, multilingual campaign to encourage eligible immigrants to become U.S. citizens.

Few politicians have been handed a gift like the one Jorge Ramos of Univision gave Donald Trump. In one lightning-flash moment, Ramos became the avatar of everything law-abiding Americans despise about the political and media class, and the issue where they most clearly converge… blurring partisan lines to form a chorus that insists citizenship law is only kinda-sorta law. Our ruling class has sternly informed us that We the People have no say in the crafting or administration of immigration law.

Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) has introduced legislation that would prevent the Obama Administration from diluting the Oath of Allegiance required for immigrants to become citizens.

The Obama administration’s changes to the Oath of Allegiance for new citizens erodes its very meaning, according to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).

“I think the President needs to fire the director immediately. I think Congress needs to pass a law to stop them from changing the oath,” Jindal said in an interview with Breitbart News Wednesday. “Let’s be honest here, immigration without assimilation is invasion. We’ve always said the people coming here have to want to be Americans otherwise why are they coming here in the first place?” he asked.

USCIS explained Tuesday that while reciting the Oath of Allegiance is part of the naturalization process, immigrant candidates for citizenship may omit portions of the oath if they have certain religious or conscientious objections.

The campaign is part of an Obama administration push to encourage immigrants to become citizens. In recent months, the Obama administration has partnered with six cities including New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, and Atlanta to promote naturalization. Print and digital advertisements will be in English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese. Radio public service announcements will be heard in Spanish and Chinese and video public service announcements will be in English and Spanish.

“As we celebrate Independence Day, we welcome over 4,000 new Americans who will be able to enjoy all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship,” USCIS Director León Rodríguez said in a statement Monday.

Greece is currently considering a measure that would grant citizenship to second-generation immigrants, defined as children born in Greece to parents who have lived there legally for at least five years, with an added requirement that applicants must be properly enrolled in a primary school.

The “ObamaTrade”– Trade in International Services Agreement– bill being debated in the Senate currently includes a proposal to relax visa requirements for Pakistani nationals, in addition to a number of other provisions that have conservatives up in arms.

According to USCIS, the agreement will establish so called “New Americans Corners” in the more than 200 public libraries in Brooklyn, New York and Queens where immigrants learn more about becoming a citizen and prepare for the naturalization process.

Australia’s mobilization against the threat of ISIS has been remarkably swift, relentless, and focused. They are taking very serious measures to deal with potential recruits. For example, AFP reports the Australian government has amended its citizenship laws to “strip dual nationals linked to terrorism of their citizenship for ‘betraying the country.'”

  AP– Australia plans to strip citizenship from Australian-born children of immigrants who become Islamic State fighters in its crackdown on homegrown jihadis, a minister said on Thursday. The government wants to change the Citizenship Act to make fighting for

Wednesday the Department of Homeland Security submitted a proposal to Congress calling for the creation of a “United States Citizenship Foundation.” The legislative proposal would grant the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to create such a foundation as a nonprofit corporation that would focus on promoting and encouraging U.S. citizenship among immigrants in the U.S.

Sen. David Vitter is reintroducing legislation that would amend existing law — specifically the Immigration and Nationality Act — to prevent children born in the U.S. to foreign parents from being automatically citizens. He’s speaking out about the bill after word that Chinese mothers are flying to the U.S. to have babies with American citizenship.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) addressed an enthusiastic audience on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), laying out what sounded like a presidential campaign speech in all but name. Cruz challenged conservative activists to judge him and his potential 2016 competition by their actions, not just their words, and what they had actually done to fight for conservative causes.

More Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship in 2014 than ever before, reports CNBC. In 2014, 3,415 Americans gave up their citizenship–an increase of 416 individuals from the previous high in 2013. The data, which were compiled by Andrew Mitchel of

Former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, offered his own reason why strengthening the border to stanch the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico is wrong: illegal immigrants will stay in the U.S. rather than return home to Mexico, because they fear they won’t be able to return to the U.S.