Posted on 10/13/2015 4:07:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump isn't the only Republican presidential candidate prepared to talk smack about Latinos to win the White House. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose father hails from Cuba, accused Democrats Monday of helping "violent criminal illegal aliens."
Cruz said Senate Democrats have worked to protect immigrants with criminal records because they are “willing to stand in pure party line vote” in support of releasing undocumented immigrants who are “murderers and rapists” to protect the president, BuzzFeed reported. “The Democrats are getting more and more open that they are the party of illegal immigration,” he said during an interview with Iowa radio host Simon Conway. “They support amnesty. They support releasing criminal illegal aliens.”
Cruz has introduced a bill that would eliminate federal funding for sanctuary cities failing to enforce federal immigration law. He also wants to set a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison for people who illegally re-enter the country with an aggravated-felony conviction. The legislation will likely get killed by Senate Democrats, he said. “Virtually every Senate Democrat will vote party line in support of sanctuary cities, in support of allowing violent criminal illegal aliens to go free," he said.
Ted Cruz Presidential Candidate Profile | InsideGov
Cruz is polling at 9 percent and has struggled to stand out in the polls against front-runners Trump and neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Trump launched his campaign this summer by calling Mexican immigrants rapists. Trump has also vowed to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a position that has won over voters in the important early voting state of Iowa.
Following the shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle this year, conservative Republican leaders have called for stricter laws involving undocumented immigrants who are convicted of serious crimes. She was allegedly killed on a San Francisco pier by a Mexican immigrant who had been deported from the U.S. five times after being convicted of seven felony convictions. Local Democratic leaders embraced sanctuary policies in 2012 after a new federal policy required state and local law enforcement to send fingerprints from every booking to immigration authorities.
Mexicans make up roughly half of the nation's 11.3 million undocumented immigrants.
It is the truth. Look no further than San Francisco for just one example.
Ah, that explains it.
Um, they realize that Cruz is Latino himself, right? Right?
Wow. Can you spin a headline any more blatantly?
He called illegal alien criminals released by our government criminals. He certainly did not call Latinos criminals. And he righteously slams Democrats for protecting them.
no, it’s not the truth. He didn’t call latinos that.
he called illegal aliens with murder and rape records that.
HUGE HUGE difference.
Giuliani didn’t “call Italian murderers and cutthroats”
He called the mafia murderers and cutthroats.
I’m italian and understood.
hispanics may not.
Looks like they are starting to come after Cruz now.
The headline is a lie.
Finally. Welcome to the party.
That headline is a lie.
Isn’t racist with a capital KKK to assume all illegal aliens are Latinos?
And they are coming spewing lies, because the truth is what they fear most!
Yes it is. LOL
The headline writer equates Latinos and “Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens.”
Of course it is.
The liberals are losing ground. Lie that ass off.
IBT = gloBULList open border unFair Trade swill.
Also the author of:
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... and
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... and
"Warren Buffett Praises Sen. Bernie Sanders' Presidential Campaign --- "I think Bernie Sanders has been a terrific campaigner. He campaigns exactly as I would campaign if I were a candidate," Buffett said."
It’s amazing Cruz didn’t even mention the word Latino, yet it’s in the headline insinuating (lying) he did say it when he didn’t.
So many recent anti-Cruz stories...what a strange coincidence. </sarc>
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