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Cruz: Path to Citizenship Would 'Jeopardize' Immigration Bill
Breitbart.com ^ | April 23rd, 2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/23/2013 7:04:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

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1 posted on 04/23/2013 7:04:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; VinL; ex-snook; sport; INVAR; ejonesie22; PieterCasparzen; Colonel_Flagg; Washi; ...

This is what you call conservative Leadership!

Ted Cruz: No pathway to citizenship in any Immigration Reform bill!

This shows Rubio and Rand Paul to be the frauds they are in terms of Tea-Party and conservative principles!

This is a man not caving on the Important issue of the day!

This is how it is done!


2 posted on 04/23/2013 7:06:55 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie
No need to pass a new immigration bill.

We know they'll only enforce the parts that result in more Democrat voters.

3 posted on 04/23/2013 7:07:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
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To: SoConPubbie

Not sure where the paragraphs went; added them back in.

On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that including a “path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants in any comprehensive immigration bill would jeopardize the likelihood of the legislation passing.

“I think if instead the bill includes elements that are deeply divisive—and I would note that I don’t think there is any issue in this entire debate that is more divisive than a path to citizenship for those who are here illegally—in my view, any bill that insists upon that jeopardizes the likelihood of passing any immigration reform bill,” Cruz said at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing, according to CNS News.

The conservative senator from Texas said Americans should “all be champions of legal immigrants making the system work” and celebrate legal immigrants. He said the bill should focus on improving legal immigration instead of giving a pathway to citizenship to illegal immigrants.

The Gang of Eight’s proposed immigration bill includes an eventual path to citizenship for the country’s current illegal immigrants. Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) are Republicans that make up the Gang of Eight, along with Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Cruz said he hoped the “reform legislation will not be held hostage to an issue that is deeply, deeply divisive, namely a pathway to citizenship.” He said it was his hope that Congress could pass a bipartisan bill addressing areas of common agreement like “securing the border, improving legal immigration, improving agricultural workers to ensure that we have workers who are here out of the shadows, able to work legally.”

“In my view, that’s how we get something done—we focus on areas of agreement, not on areas of disagreement, and


4 posted on 04/23/2013 7:08:04 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

NO IMMMIGATION BILL OF ANY KIND!


5 posted on 04/23/2013 7:08:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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NO IMMMIGATION BILL OF ANY KIND!

Sorry, but nothing he is suggesting is harmful or non-conservative.
Cruz said he hoped the “reform legislation will not be held hostage to an issue that is deeply, deeply divisive, namely a pathway to citizenship.” He said it was his hope that Congress could pass a bipartisan bill addressing areas of common agreement like “securing the border, improving legal immigration, improving agricultural workers to ensure that we have workers who are here out of the shadows, able to work legally.”

6 posted on 04/23/2013 7:11:13 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Cruz is a breath of fresh air.

Of course without a path to citizenship there would be little reason for the democrats to get behind this abomination.

7 posted on 04/23/2013 7:13:42 PM PDT by skeeter
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I am waiting to see somebody INSIST that any bill that purports to bring illegal aliens “out of the shadows” MUST have a voter ID provision. I have no idea how Democrat states could be forced to comply, but something has to be done.


8 posted on 04/23/2013 7:17:10 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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I am waiting to see somebody INSIST that any bill that purports to bring illegal aliens “out of the shadows” MUST have a voter ID provision. I have no idea how Democrat states could be forced to comply, but something has to be done.

I believe that his usage of Agricultural works has to do with seasonal workers, and that his usage of the term "Out of the Shadows" does not mean legalizing or any other form of Amnesty but just that any future workers will not be in the shadows. That is my hope, and given the way he has phrased this, I believe I am correct.
9 posted on 04/23/2013 7:19:59 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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I like the cut of Cruz’s cloth. Texas picked a good ‘un.


10 posted on 04/23/2013 7:23:50 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Anything that indicates that entering,or remaining in,the US in violation of Federal law is anything less than a serious felony is a danger to the nation.


11 posted on 04/23/2013 7:24:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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Anything that indicates that entering,or remaining in,the US in violation of Federal law is anything less than a serious felony is a danger to the nation.

I agree, however, I don't believe that is what Ted Cruz was suggesting.
12 posted on 04/23/2013 7:27:44 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Cruz is great, let's help him hold on when the time comes.

This bill is such a joke, how depressing that 4 pubbies are standing for a bill that Chuck Schumer loves.

13 posted on 04/23/2013 7:27:44 PM PDT by Lakeshark (!)
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This is what you call conservative Leadership! Ted Cruz: No pathway to citizenship in any Immigration Reform bill!

Excellent! I'm very proud to have given Ted Cruz my vote for US Senator!

14 posted on 04/23/2013 7:29:23 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

We’re pretty proud of’em.


15 posted on 04/23/2013 7:31:03 PM PDT by servantboy777
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->>NO IMMMIGATION BILL OF ANY KIND!

YES, a perfect slogan.


16 posted on 04/23/2013 7:31:21 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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->This shows Rubio and Rand Paul to be the frauds they are in terms of Tea-Party and conservative principles!

Yes, these two have stepped in it. Rubio can't talk his way of this mess unless he says I am wrong-don't see that happening.

17 posted on 04/23/2013 7:34:30 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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Right....reading between the lines Cruz knows that the bill is dead without the “pathway” so if they can strip it out nothing passes.


18 posted on 04/23/2013 7:38:57 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: SoConPubbie

It would be a GRAVE MISTAKE for a number of reasons to put any foreign national currently residing here without permission of the US government (aka: “illegal alien”), to have the right to vote, no matter sooner or later after he is given whatever legal status that Congress passes.

Did I also mention that these people SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO VOTE?


19 posted on 04/23/2013 7:41:29 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Christie at the beach

I heard Rubio for about 60 seconds tonight and had to turn him off! You can’t polish a T$&&! Go away Rubio!


20 posted on 04/23/2013 7:42:23 PM PDT by lone star annie
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