Posted on 12/17/2015 2:14:33 PM PST by Isara
Ted Cruz has coined a new term in the fight over immigration: "undocumented Democrats." Speaking in Las Vegas on Thursday, the Texas senator and GOP presidential candidate portrayed the idea of a path to citizenship as a ploy to beef up Democratic voter rolls.
"Proponents of the Gang of Eight were being hypocrites. They were not telling the truth," he said. "What they claimed they were interested in was not in fact what they were interested in. What they were interested in, what Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama wanted, was very simple: They wanted millions of new Democratic voters. There's a reason why I think the new politically correct term is no longer illegal aliens; it's undocumented Democrats."
The Gang of Eight was a bipartisan group of senators who, in 2013, crafted a compromise immigration reform bill. Cruz isn't just criticizing them to look tough on immigration, a hot issue in the GOP primary this year; one of his biggest GOP rivals, Marco Rubio, was a member of the Gang of Eight.
Criticizing Rubio for his role in that gang has become a part of Cruz's strategy. Cruz also took the opportunity in this week's GOP debate to connect Rubio with the Gang of Eight bill, casting the bill's provisions on refugees as too weak.
Cruz himself in 2013 said he wanted immigration reform to pass, but he introduced an amendment that would have changed the bill's path to citizenship to a path to legal status. At the time, Cruz said that his amendment was designed to help the bill pass. However, he has recently cast his amendment as a "poison pill," designed to keep the bill from passing.
Data from the Pew Research Center suggests that immigrants who are in the country illegally are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican, but not overwhelmingly so. Around 54 percent of unauthorized Latino immigrants in 2013 said they identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party, compared to 19 percent who said the same of the Republican Party.
“Oh, the humanity...!”
Ted should also add the term undocumented communists and undocumented terrorists.
I prefer illegal democrats but then again that’s pretty much anyone on the left.
OUCH!
Probably more like “already illegally voting Democrats.”
Oh, well ... we can accomplish anything if it doesn't matter who gets credit.
Crimigrants
I LIKE IT! Undocumented democrats. Nice, very nice.
Crimigrants
LOL even better!
The Undocumented Democrat in Chief will like that term
NPR is accusing ANYONE of being politically correct? That’s a LAUGH!
Didn’t Limbaugh come up with that term about 10 years ago?
That term has been around for a while. I doubt that Cruz invented it.
NPR shows just how out of touch they are. lol
It’s a great term and, AFAIK, it’s the first time that any candidate has talked about the Democrat reason for supporting illegal immigration.
It is a balancing act, since Democraps will say that Cruz only opposes illegal immigration because these poor souls vote Democrap.
Sounds pretty friggin' overwhelmingly to me!
NPR is reporting this as if it's some sort of surprise why Democrats are so eager to import millions of people with the promise of Democrat handouts and then register them to vote.
“but not overwhelmingly so. Around 54 percent...compared to 19 percent”
Yeah, 54:19 isn’t much of a margin...YGBSM!
Undocumented Democrats. I like it. I’ll use it - “UDs”!
The Democrat Party desperately needs these undocumented aliens (Democrats) to replace the estimated 50 million Democrats that have been flushed down the toilet since Roe V. Wade in 1973.
Oh, and why are immigrants who are in the country illegally more likely to VOTE for anything?
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