BTW, one way Cruz got the GOP nomination was by beating up on Dewhurst for being weak on illegal immigration:
http://www.ontheissues.org/international/Ted_Cruz_Immigration.htm
He swore that he was against amnesty during the campaign. His one fig leaf he’s holding up over that position now is wishing the bill didn’t also grant citizenship in one fell swoop.
All he’s saying there is that he fears granting citizenship in the bill will jeopardize its passing, and he wants to see the bill passed.
Here are the last two paragraphs of the article, complete with his quoting the old “out of the shadows” saw:
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 I’m hopeful that over the course of consideration, we’ll see some consensus come together to do exactly that,” he said.