Posted on 08/09/2017 6:02:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
<< Your post is simply disgusting! If you are trying to divide conservatives, you are doing a good job of it. Have a little pride. >>
Thank you, Essie. Cruz divided the conservatives, if we will together recall his behaviors. I believe I explained exactly how he did that in my post up thread, but thank you for playing.
So? How many others in Congress have similar or close to that and yet support amnesty, increasing H1B, and lie?
On the Supreme Court I would suspect.
glad to hear that Ted is staying on top.
I sure will be supporting him, and I don’t even live in Texas.
I can’t believe the posters here that will cut off their nose to spite their face.
If you vote in a Democrat, you WILL lose a seat we cannot afford to lose.
Cruz will crush him PERIOD.
:) Amen.
There are only 3 senators with lifetime 100 ratings. Ted is one of them.
Further, YOU are the one lying here. Ted fought against the amnesty bill, and according to senators on both sides of the bill, he was the key member in defeating it. And he and Sessions (before Sessions left to be AG) co-sponsored a bill to suspend the H1B program.
Would you like me to re-post my comparison of Cruz’s positions on illegal immigration and Trump’s?
In fairness, Cruz said during his presidential campaign that while he was against legalizing marijuana, as a constitutionalist, he would leave it to the states to decide.
Gov.Abbott.
Please do it. If you won't do it for Reno911, do it because I asked you real nice and politely.
It was written during the primary campaign.
(I am not going through it to edit all the punctuation and the like.)
Who is the candidate who is tough on illegal immigration and amnesty?
Here is Senator Cruz’s position as of June 2013:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/19/cruz_gang_of_eight_bill_offers_the_same_empty_promises_as_1986_reform.html
“This Gang of Eight bill is a disaster. It is the exact same thing we saw in 1986. The last big immigration reform was in 1986, and the federal government told the American people, we’re gonna grant amnesty for the three million people who are here illegally. And in exchange for that we’re actually gonna secure the borders. We’re gonna solve illegal immigration, and the problem is gonna go away.
“Now, we saw what happened. The amnesty happened, the borders never got secured, and now three decades later, instead of three million people, it’s 11 million people.
“11 million, 12 million. We don’t have an exact number, but it is three to four times bigger than what it was in 1986, and we’re hearing the exact same empty promises. What the Gang of Eight bill does is it grants legalization now. It takes everyone who’s here illegally and says, “You’re legal,” and then just like in 1986 it promises, “sometime in the future, trust us, wink-wink, we’ll secure the border.” I don’t think the American people are that foolish. You know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If this bill is enacted, it will make the problem worse. If this bill is enacted, in another decade or two we’re gonna be back here not with 11 million, but with 20 million or 30 million people here illegally. This is a broken system. I think what Americans want is fix the problem, stop playing political games, actually secure the border and make a legal immigration system that works.
“Well, the Democrats want this for pure politics. Chuck Schumer was very candid in the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said, “If there is no citizenship, there can be no reform.” This is all about their endeavor. They want to grant amnesty, and they hope to get a lot more Democratic voters, or they want this to be voted down and use it as a political issue in 2014 and 2016.
“On the Republican side, sadly, a lot of the support of it is political as well. You know, after 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, “You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.” And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. I gotta tell you, I think that political argument is complete nonsense. If you look at the last time we enacted amnesty in 1986, the next election was 1988, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote went down. It is not the case — Hispanics are not the single-issue, monolithic voters.”
I see nothing there that is incompatible with what he is saying now. And furthermore, Cruz (with a couple of others) led the fight against the bill — and put up a petition against it.
Meanwhile, here is Donald Trump’s position as of A FEW MONTHS AGO (2015):
“Now, a lot of these people are helping us, whether it’s the grapes, or whether it’s jobs, and sometimes it’s jobs, in all fairness, I love our country, but sometimes it’s jobs that a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do. I mean, there are jobs that a lot of people don’t want to do. I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in.
“I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that, but the DREAMers, it’s a tough situation, we’re going to do something, and one of the things we’re going to do is expedite — when somebody’s terrific, we want them back here.
“I have to tell you: Some of these people have been here, they’ve done a good job. You know, in some cases, sadly, they’ve been living under the shadows. ... If somebody’s been outstanding, we try and work something out.”
[The article continues] This is in line with what CNN’s Chris Moody reported Trump saying during a press conference in Chicago at the end of June. When asked what he would do about the illegal immigrants already residing in the country once the border was secured, Trump replied, “give them a path,” according to Moody.
https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck/beck-blitz-donald-trumppro-amnesty
(As of July 14)
http://liberteanow.us/2015/07/14/2601/
Trump: You have to give them a path. You have 20 million, 30 million, nobody knows what it is. It used to be 11 million. Now, today I hear it’s 11, but I don’t think it’s 11. I actually heard you probably have 30 million. You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed. You have to do that.
(As of August 10 — remember all these dates on the Trump quotes are 2015!)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422351/donald-trump-immigration-amnesty-build-wall
“Asked about his immigration ideas on CNN, Trump was a mess, beginning with the old “jobs Americans won’t do” canard favored by open-borders proponents (a canard because it always leaves out the relevant qualifier: “at current wages”), then suggesting that we should deport the millions of illegals who are already here only to turn around and bring them back (”I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in, and let them be legal.”) This process would include those brought here as young children, who will be deported and recycled based on the criterion of whether they are — Trump’s word — “terrific.” What might constitute a federal terrificness standard remains unclear. “We’re going to do something,” Trump said. “I’ve been giving it so much thought. You know you have a, on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart.”
[The article continues] Deporting some 11 million illegals who have for many years evaded deportation only to reimport them under an expedited legal immigration system, the contours of which currently are undefined, and then granting them some sort of permanent legal status is simply another variation on amnesty, and a complicated, expensive, and thick-headed version of amnesty at that. Like the proposed reform program of 2007, which would have purportedly required illegals to be present in their country of origin when applying for legal status, this isn’t just amnesty — it’s also amnesty-laundering.
These are pro-amnesty positions Trump took JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO (2015)! By contrast, Ted Cruz fought the amnesty bill in the U.S. Senate two years ago. So who is tough on amnesty?
(BTW, I got roundly attacked for posting these quotes.)
Abbott is Cruz’s mentor. You didn’t know that?
Thanks.
I think Abbott is a lot more honest then Cruz is.
Correction-that should read ‘who’ not ‘how’.
Yeah, Sam Houston could probably beat him or Don Trump, Junior. But they’re not going to run against him.
Cruz put his own ego above the welfare of the nation when he didn't endorse Trump.
Puleeeze! Politics ain’t beanbag.
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