. . . "Under the law as it applied when Obama and Cruz were born, if a person was born outside the U.S. and its possessions and had one parent who was an alien, the person would only be a citizen from birth if the other parent was a U.S. citizen who had been physically present in the United States before the person???s birth for at least 10 years, at least five of which were after that parent turned 14 y" .