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Rafael Edward Cruz was born on December 22, 1970,<ref name="CongressionalBio">{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C001098|title=CRUZ, Rafael Edward (Ted) – Biographical Information |publisher=Bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=April 27, 2013}}</ref><ref name="AustinAmStCruz">[http://www.statesman.com/s/news/politics/ted-cruz/ U.S. senator Ted Cruz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405084103/http://www.statesman.com/s/news/politics/ted-cruz/ |date=April 5, 2016 }}, ''[[Austin American-Statesman]]''</ref> at [[Foothills Medical Centre]]<ref name="Macleans">{{cite news|title=Ted Cruz: Made in Canada|last1=Abel|first1=Allen|last2=Markusoff|first2=Jason |url=http://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/ted-cruz-made-in-canada|newspaper=[[Maclean's Magazine]]|date=January 13, 2016 |access-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Panetta|first=Alexander|date=May 9, 2015|title=Birthplace of President Ted Cruz? Calgary homeowner hopes it never happens|url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/birthplace-of-president-ted-cruz-calgary-homeowner-hopes-it-never-happens|newspaper=[[Calgary Herald]]|agency=[[The Canadian Press]]|access-date=January 15, 2015|quote=Steward is pretty sure the American conservative began life at the Foothills Medical Centre — a government-run, Canadian socialist hospital.}}</ref> in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada, to Eleanor Elizabeth ({{nee|Darragh}}) Wilson and [[Rafael Cruz]].<ref name="Texplainer08132012">{{cite news|title=Texplainer: Could Canadian-Born Ted Cruz Be President?|first=John Wayne|last=Ferguson |url=http://www.texastribune.org/2012/08/13/texplainer-could-canadian-born-ted-cruz-be-preside/|newspaper=[[Texas Tribune]] |quote=Bottom line: Despite being born in Canada, Cruz is a U.S. citizen because his mother was a U.S. citizen, according to constitutional experts.|date=August 13, 2012|access-date=August 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Time4Truth">{{cite book |title=A Time For Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America |publisher=Broadside Books |author=Cruz, Ted |year=2015 |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-06-236561-3}}</ref><ref name="CostaNatlRev08282013" /><ref name="GilmanDallasNews08182013">{{cite news|title=Canada-born Ted Cruz became a citizen of that country as well as U.S.|author=Gillman, Todd J.|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-born-in-canada-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]]|date=August 18, 2013|access-date=August 19, 2013|archive-date=August 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819145057/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130818-born-in-canada-ted-cruz-became-a-citizen-of-that-country-as-well-as-u.s..ece|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cruz's mother was born in [[Wilmington, Delaware]]. She is of three-quarters [[Irish people|Irish]] and one-quarter [[Italians|Italian]] descent, and earned an [[undergraduate degree]] in mathematics from [[Rice University]] in the 1950s.<ref name="NYTimesEckholm08012012"/><ref>{{cite web |title=About Senator Cruz |url=https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=about_senator |website=www.cruz.senate.gov |access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref>
Cruz's father, Rafael, was born and raised in Cuba, the son of a [[Canary Islander]] who immigrated to [[Cuba]] as a child.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/donald-trump-ted-cruz-us-political-figures-react/story?id=43790782|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|title=Donald Trump, US Political Figures React to Fidel Castro's Death|first1=Michael|last1=Edison Hayden|first2=Alexander|last2=Mallin|first3=Paul|last3=Blake|date=November 26, 2016}}</ref> As a teenager in the 1950s, Rafael Cruz was beaten by agents of [[Fulgencio Batista]] for opposing the Batista regime, although an extensive search by ''The New York Times'' found no evidence for his claims.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Horowitz|first=Jason|date=November 9, 2015|title=Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz's Father's Story of Fighting for Castro (Published 2015)|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/cuban-peers-dispute-ted-cruzs-fathers-story-of-fighting-for-castro.html|access-date=February 19, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He left Cuba in 1957 to attend the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and obtained [[political asylum]] in the United States after his four-year [[student visa]] expired.<ref name="Welna20June">{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/06/20/193585553/how-ted-cruzs-father-shaped-his-views-on-immigration|title=How Ted Cruz's Father Shaped His Views On Immigration|date=June 20, 2013|access-date=December 14, 2015|first=David|last=Welna |publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref> He earned Canadian citizenship in 1973<ref name="Macleans" /> and became a [[Naturalization|naturalized]] United States citizen in 2005.<ref name="CostaNatlRev08282013">{{cite news|title=The Rise of Rafael Cruz|author=Costa, Robert |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/356934/rise-rafael-cruz-robert-costa|newspaper=[[National Review]]|date=August 28, 2013 |quote=Born in Matanzas, Cuba, he grew up in the Cuba middle class in the 1950s, as the son of an RCA salesman and an elementary-school teacher. As a teenager, he grew to detest the regime of [[Fulgencio Batista]]. He and some of his schoolmates frequently clashed with Batista's officials. Eventually, he linked up with Castro's guerrilla groups and supported their attempts to overthrow Batista. It's a decision he still regrets. His move toward Castro, he explains, was mostly due to his anger with Batista's government, which at one point imprisoned him and tortured him for his work with the revolutionaries. He says he never shared Castro's Communism, but at the time, it was the best way to fight Batista's oppression. By age 18, in 1957, he knew he needed to get out, and a friend essentially bribed an official to secure him an exit permit.|access-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name="OlsenHousChron10132012">{{cite news|title=Cruz's life defies simplification|author=Olsen, Lise|url=http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Cruz-s-life-defies-simplification-3946523.php|newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]]|date=October 13, 2012|quote=The ex-revolutionary pastor regularly stumps for his son, whom he's compared to the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah – a relentless advocate with "fire in his bones." Ted, he says, is "not going to Washington to compromise"|access-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Swartz|first=Mimi|date=March 31, 2015|title=Ted Cruz and the New Politics of Texas|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/opinion/ted-cruz-and-the-new-politics-of-texas.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York|access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref>
At the time of his birth, Ted Cruz's parents had lived in Calgary for three years and were working in the oil business as owners of a [[Reflection seismology|seismic-data processing]] firm for oil [[Well drilling|drilling]].<ref name="CostaNatlRev08282013"/><ref name="FOXNewsLatino04082013">{{cite news|title=Ted Cruz's Father Talks About Latinos, Conservatives and the American Dream |url=http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/04/08/ted-cruz-father-and-inspiration-talks-about-latinos-conservatives-and-american|newspaper=[[Fox Latin America|FOX News Latino]]|quote=Cruz, the father, and his wife, Eleanor Darragh, left the United States for a few years, living in Canada to take advantage of the oil boom.|date=April 8, 2012|access-date=October 6, 2013}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes11182011">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/us/politics/ted-cruz-is-a-test-for-the-tea-party-in-texas-race.html|title=A Test for the Tea Party in Texas Senate Race|author=Zernike, Kate|date=November 18, 2011|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name="newvos1">{{cite news|title=Ted Cruz: New Voice for the American Dream |first=Terence|last=Jeffrey|url=http://cwww.creators.com/opinion/terence-jeffrey/ted-cruz-new-voice-for-the-american-dream.html |newspaper=[[Creators Syndicate]]|year=2011|access-date=August 17, 2013|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053539/http://cwww.creators.com/opinion/terence-jeffrey/ted-cruz-new-voice-for-the-american-dream.html|archive-date=September 21, 2013}}</ref><ref name="GarrettDallasNews04282013">{{cite news|title=Senate candidate Ted Cruz aims to pick up mantle of Reagan|author=Garrett, Robert T.|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20120428-senate-candidate-ted-cruz-aims-to-pick-up-mantle-of-reagan.ece|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]]|date=April 28, 2013|access-date=August 22, 2013}}</ref> Cruz has said that he is the son of "two mathematicians/computer programmers".<ref name="Mervis">{{cite news |last=Mervis|first=Jeffrey|date=December 9, 2015|title=From a bully pulpit, Ted Cruz offers his take on climate change |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/bully-pulpit-ted-cruz-offers-his-take-climate-change|newspaper=[[Science (journal)|ScienceInsider]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|access-date=February 6, 2016}}</ref> In 1974, Cruz's father left the family and moved to Texas.<ref>Larson, Leslie. [http://m.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ted-cruz-plans-renounce-canadian-citizenship-article-1.1561380 "Ted Cruz plans to renounce Canadian citizenship"], ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]], New York'' (December 30, 2013).</ref> Later that year, Cruz's parents reconciled and relocated the family to Houston.<ref name="Macleans"/> They divorced in 1997.<ref name="Recio1Apr">{{cite news|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24782596.html|title=Ted Cruz's family story: Poignant but incomplete|first=Maria|last=Recio|work=McClatchy|date=April 1, 2015|access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref> Cruz has two older half-sisters, Miriam Ceferina Cruz and Roxana Lourdes Cruz, from his father's first marriage. Miriam died in 2011 from a drug overdose.<ref name="Recio1Apr"/><ref>[http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/2015/06/26/ted-cruzs-secret-weapon-win-right Ted Cruz's Secret Weapon to Win the Right], ''[[National Journal]]'', Andy Kroll, June 25, 2015; retrieved November 11, 2015.</ref><ref name="TimeTruthCruz">{{cite book|title=A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America|pages=28–44, 101–03|publisher=Broadside|year=2015|first=Ted|last=Cruz}}</ref>
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