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Posted on 10/11/2015 2:46:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz is the first Hispanic American to serve as a U.S. Senator from Texas. He was elected to office in 2012 and serves as a chairman on a number of Senate subcommittees. His past government positions include the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department. Cruz served as a domestic policy advisor on President George W. Bush’s first presidential campaign and was the Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada. He is eligible to run for President of the United States because his mother was an American citizen at the time of his birth. This renders Cruz a “natural born citizen,” despite being born outside U.S. borders.
Environment: Cruz has an 11 percent lifetime rating from the League of Conservation voters with a 0 percent rating for 2014, indicating a strong anti-environment record. He’s tried to repeal climate change regulations in the U.S. and is a human-induced climate change denier.
Economy: CNN Money points out that Cruz’s economic positions have numerous factual issues. Cruz advocates auditing the Federal Reserve, despite the fact this already happens twice a year. He advocates a flat tax and abolishing the IRS. Assuming these changes are possible, economists warn that a flat tax system could hurt the poor and middle earners while favoring the rich.
Immigration: Cruz opposes a pathway to citizenship and wants to increase police power to interrogate individuals about their immigration status. He wishes to triple Border Patrol and “defund” what he considers to be amnesty.
Foreign Policy: He describes himself as being in the middle of the positions held by Sens. John McCain (R – Arizona) and Rand Paul (R – Kentucky). Bloomberg View describes his interventionist but militarily reticent view as “Tea Party hawk.” Cruz routinely criticizes President Obama’s foreign policy as a “manifest disaster” that doesn’t “speak out for dissidents.”
Criminal Justice: Cruz supports ending “draconian” mandatory minimum sentences, wants to see redundant statues that result in multiple punishments for a single crime eliminated and advocates a return to jury trials.
Gun Control: He consistently opposes gun control efforts. Cruz was criticized for making jokes about gun control after the Charleston church massacre.
Minority and Women’s Rights: A U.S. News and World Report editorial calls Cruz the epitome of “new abortion extremism,” as Cruz would even deny access to women who have been raped. ThinkProgress describes Cruz as “anti-woman.” Cruz opined that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that validated nationwide marriage equality was the “definition of tyranny.” He has opposed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Looks like a high school newspaper report.
I don’t like them labeling Ted Cruz a Hispanic.
He’s an American.
It’s a large group of tree-huggers, all over the country. I like to get all opinions.
Not really the whole story here. From Cruz speaking to some "advocacy" group for illegal aliens:
"And I’d like to make a final point to those advocacy groups that are very engaged in this issue and rightly concerned about addressing our immigration system, and in particular about addressing the situation for the 11 million who are currently in the shadows. If this amendment is adopted to the current bill the effect would be that those 11 million under this current bill would still be eligible for RPI status.** They would still be eligible for legal status and indeed under the terms of the bill they would be eligible for LPR status as well, so that they are out of the shadows, which the proponents of this bill repeatedly point to as their principle objective — to provide a legal status for those who are here illlegally to be out of the shadows. This amendment would allow that to happen …
"And a second point to those advocacy groups that are so passionately engaged. In my view if this committee rejects this amendment, and I think everyone here views it as quite likely this committee will choose to reject this amendment, in my view that decision will make it much, much more likely that this entire bill will fail in the House of Representantives. I don’t want immigration reform to fail. I want immigration reform to pass, and so I would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration, and that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows, then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromise to come together and this amendment — I believe if this amendment were to pass the chances of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically, and so I would urge the committee to give it full consideration and to adopt the amendment."
http://www.kausfiles.com/2015/05/21/cruz-and-amnesty-round-ii-the-telltale-video/
Granting permanent legal status to all 11 million (well, actually, 40 million) illegals, even while claiming to bar them from citizenship, is nothing more than amnesty, and an amnesty that will lead to them getting a pathway to citizenship anyway regardless of what Cruz says about it. By the way, the Cruz campaign lied about their support for their own amendment, describing it as a "gimmick," a way to sabotage the Gang of Eight Bill, despite in multiple instances, such as the one you see above, clearly supporting it.
Another article on this topic:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/ted_cruz_vs_donald_trump_whos_stronger_on_immigration.html
Cruz was even afraid to support "self-deportation", making him even weaker on illegal immigration than Mitt Romney.
After pointing this out, we can get into Fast Track and also how his wife-- as a member of the CFR-- supported the overall goals of the globalists but only "dissented" in the sense that she thought the free market needed a bigger role in fixing the Mexican economy. Cruz has depicted her as a "conservative" on par with John Bolton, another CFR member, despite the fact she does indeed support their mass legalization and mass immigration program.
All this combined makes Cruz's "conservative record" look far less than that of the "true" or "consistent" conservative he is usually portrayed as.
Sounds good to me!!!! Though I am shocked the League of Conservation voters gave him such a high rating of 11.
Drink you Soros-supplied Zima, troll.
You’re still on the whole “let’s try calling GPH a troll every time he posts about Cruz’s weakness on immigration etc etc”? Because I don’t think it works.
You refer to yourself in the third person? That’s taking the troll nuttiness up a notch! And how do we know whether or not it is “working” here? Do a poll?
People would have to be easily swayed by the ravings of a child, so swayed they don't bother to just take five seconds to read Ted Cruz's own words and history on the subject. An analysis of the facts can't come to a position other than the one I've come to, sadly.
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