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Ted Cruz Seeks to Ban Illegal Immigrants in U.S. from Citizenship
US News and World Report ^ | MAy 8, 2013 | Rebekah Metzler

Posted on 05/08/2013 10:53:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a newly elected Republican with a penchant for making headlines, filed an amendment that would bar undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States from ever earning citizenship.

There are an estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally, and a bipartisan immigration reform measure would create a pathway to citizenship over the course of 13 years by requiring those people to pay penalties and back taxes, as well as learn English. Conservatives opposed to reform decry the path as amnesty, but Democrats say they will not support reform that does not cope with the immigrants already living in the U.S.

Cruz also filed amendments that he says would "strengthen border security measures; reform the high-skilled temporary worker program; modernize, streamline and expand legal immigration; and prohibit federal, state or local entitlement benefits for those here illegally."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; cruz; homosexualagenda; illegalaiens; illegalimmigration; immigration; tedcruz
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Hear, hear!!
1 posted on 05/08/2013 10:53:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

B U M P


2 posted on 05/08/2013 10:54:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Ban Illegal Immigrants”?

up is down and down is up

p.s. good for him!


3 posted on 05/08/2013 10:55:05 AM PDT by MaryLou1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damned Straight!

Rubio blew it.


4 posted on 05/08/2013 10:55:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A lofty, courageous and patriotic goal but McCain and Graham will make sure it never passes.


5 posted on 05/08/2013 10:55:36 AM PDT by South40
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a newly elected Republican with a penchant for making headlines,

Yes, the leftist media would view it that way while simultaneously ignoring Benghazi and other democRAT failures.

6 posted on 05/08/2013 10:57:02 AM PDT by South40
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

ted cruz—best republican elected official in america today.


7 posted on 05/08/2013 10:57:10 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (If the republican party wants to be the democrat lite party then they don't need my vote)
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To: South40

Keep reading. Pat Leahy wants illegals to be able to bring their same-sex partners in and get them citizenship.


8 posted on 05/08/2013 10:57:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they are somehow given amnesty at the very least let them be banned from voting for 25 years.


9 posted on 05/08/2013 10:57:36 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ

THEY VOTE NOW!!!


10 posted on 05/08/2013 10:58:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ban them and also ban anchor babies from ever receiving citizenship.


11 posted on 05/08/2013 10:59:35 AM PDT by NowApproachingMidnight (Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.)
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To: South40
IIRC, the Manchin-Toomey AYES was 54 in my book....that's a win, technically.

The problem is that Reid did not get 60 votes which could vote down a filibuster attempt.

So we have a “WIN” now called a “LOSS” because the Democrats did not want to stand behind the efficacy of the measure because “FEELINGS” are transitory....i.e., DOES NOT LAST. Were they to proceed, people might have more time to examine the bill, find out all the particulars, and likely dissent while the Senate is in the midst of filibuster.

12 posted on 05/08/2013 11:00:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We already had some folks here earlier who said it wasn’t good enough and Cruz was a RINO.


13 posted on 05/08/2013 11:00:30 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They don’t want citizenship: They want free money. They are Mexicans primarily and do not want to be Americans.


14 posted on 05/08/2013 11:01:04 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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“THEY VOTE NOW!!!”

you are right my friend and them and other voted multiple times in the last scammed vote for "present"

15 posted on 05/08/2013 11:01:05 AM PDT by ldish (obama is finally in season...treason is the reason!!!!!)
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To: Liz; sickoflibs; Nachum; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; ...

PING


16 posted on 05/08/2013 11:01:30 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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Democrats say they will not support reform that does not cope with the immigrants already living in the U.S. We deal with them by sending them home.
17 posted on 05/08/2013 11:02:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: mnehring

They’d call Curtis LeMay a hippie, I suppose.


18 posted on 05/08/2013 11:03:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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You go, Teddy!

(Finally -- a senator named Ted WITHOUT his head up his ass!)

19 posted on 05/08/2013 11:03:10 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It makes perfect sense to me. Go home and do it right or forever forfeit your chance to become a citizen.


20 posted on 05/08/2013 11:04:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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