Posted on 01/29/2016 8:52:53 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said after Thursday evening's GOP presidential debate that he's the only candidate in the 2016 presidential race who has consistently opposed "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
"In the Republican field, I am the only person on that stage, the only Republican running, who opposes amnesty, who opposes a pathway to citizenship," Mr. Cruz said on Fox News' "The Kelly File." "Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — all three of them support a pathway to citizenship."...
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Except in 2013 when he supported it.
Not true.
Ha!
The Iceman Cometh! Let the truth be told!
I guess that depends on what the meaning of Amnesty is. Aren’t you tired of lawyer/political speak and squabbling over what the definition of “is” is?
He’s using his definition of amnesty. If the government allows them to stay, but denies them citizenship, it isn’t amnesty.
He knows that, but didn’t you know that being obtuse is a requirement for being a Trumpophile.
That will leave a mark RS
Are you talking about his poison pill? The whole point was to kill it.
Apparently there's a difference between opposing amnesty and welcoming illegals with teddy bears. Sort of like the definition of "is".
Except for that flub with Wallace, I thought Ted Cruz had a good night. And btw, that newspaper would have read the same way even if Cruz had an absolutely flawless performance.
Except when he was for it.
And was silent about it in the beginning of the campaign, saying condescendingly that ‘The American people don’t want to have that conversation.”
A consistent Conservative wouldn’t have to avoid the subject, only talking about it after Trump made it a topic.
What Mr. Cruz has tried to articulate in both word and deed is a middle ground. It got no support from Democrats in Washington, but it goes further than many on the far right want to go by offering leniency to undocumented immigrants here already: A path to legal status, but not to citizenship. A green card with no right to naturalization.
Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Mr. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.
Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.
"The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight," he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
Mr. Cruz said recent polling indicated that people outside Washington support some reform, including legal status without citizenship. He said he was against naturalization because it rewarded lawbreakers and was unfair to legal immigrants. It also perpetuates illegal crossings, he added.
Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.
It depends on what the meaning of amnesty is for Cruz. Legalization is amnesty.
Dec 2015--Reporter asks Ted Cruz four times: "How do you define amnesty?"
Nope, of Megan Kelly admits (after trying to do him in the debate, of course) that Ted has a consistent record of opposing amnesty.
BS! Cruz just wants to redefine what an illegal alien is and what amnesty is.
Cruz wants to give them all legal status to remain here.
Cruz: “...once we’ve demonstrated that we can [secure the border], then we can have a conversation about what to do about whatever people remain illegally,†Cruz added. When asked if that conversation included the potential for a pathway to legal status, he repeated, “We can have that conversation with the American people once we secure the border.â€
Anyone paying attention when all of this was going on (like I thought we were on FR?!) should remember that Ted Cruz was the lone voice of sanity we were all thankful for then. We understood what he was doing and praised him for his brilliant tactics. Now we have FReepers against him. That only means you have left him... he has not left you.
Anyone with a brain knows that there is no way to allow them to stay and not give the voting rights.
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