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Ted Cruz’s despicable immigration strategy: Tea Party favorite attempts to drive racial wedge
Salon ^ | December 3, 2014 | Luke Brinker

Posted on 12/03/2014 2:32:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Senator claims that President Obama's immigration action hurts African Americans.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is intent on pulling out all the stops to block President Barack Obama’s executive action offering deportation relief for up to 5 million unauthorized immigrants. The pioneer of the 2013 government shutdown is pushing congressional conservatives to defund the president’s action in a must-pass spending bill, and has declared that “not a single presidential nominee” should be confirmed to any post if Obama moves forward with his “illegal amnesty.” On Wednesday, Cruz sank to a new low in his anti-immigration crusade, attempting to drive a wedge between Latinos and African Americans.

Speaking at a press conference today, the senator asserted that Obama’s immigration policy is “fundamentally unfair” to black people.

“Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules and came here legally,” Cruz said, per Talking Points Memo’s Daniel Strauss. “Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the 92 Americans who aren’t working here right now. Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the African American community that’s facing historic unemployment.”

The great warrior for racial justice may not be aware that the economic literature shows that immigrants actually don’t rob other groups of jobs, despite what many conservatives cynically claim.

If Cruz is actually interested in addressing African American unemployment, there are a number of policies he could support: eradicating institutional inequities in the criminal justice system, massive investments in public education and job training programs, public works projects, and beefed-up enforcement of policies that aim to combat workplace discrimination.

We’re waiting, senator.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; blacks; cruz; immigration; tedcruz
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To: stanne
OBAMA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL AMNESTY TO MIGRANTS THAT ARE LIVING ILLEGALLY IN THE U.S.A.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty.

“Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules and came here legally,” Cruz said, per Talking Points Memo’s Daniel Strauss. “Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the 92 MILLION Americans who aren’t working here right now. Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the African American community that’s facing historic unemployment.”

After destroying the best health care system in the world, Obama is determined to grant wide amnesty to foreigners living illegally in U.S. If Obama wants to make the U.S. into another banana republic, it seems he is well underway to reaching his goal.

The Republicans must make it perfectly clear that Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America. There are 92 million of able Americans out of the work force because they cannot find employment and Obama wants to legalize and give work permits to over 11 million illegal aliens allowing them to bring here the rest of their families. In other words, another 25 or 30 million that either will compete with Americans and legal immigrants searching for scarce jobs or are going to be added to welfare, bankrupting Medicaid and the food stamp system as well as ruining even more the quality of the public schools with the massive infuse of hundreds of thousands of children without speaking English to already overburdened schools systems.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html

Obama Was Against Illegal Immigration Before He Was For it

by Selwyn Duke

17 November 2014

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/19547-obama-was-against-illegal-immigration-before-he-was-for-it?tmpl=component&print=1

“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers threatens to depress further the wages of blue- collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.” (The opinion of the anti-illegal-alien crusader Barack HusseiObama from his 2006 autobiography The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream)

Obama had super majority in both cameras during the first two years of his presidency, but he didn’t give the amnesty during his first 100 days as he promised to those living illegally in the country… Furthermore, as senator, Obama opposed George W Bush when the republicans tried to give a legal status to those living illegally in U.S.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html

41 posted on 12/03/2014 3:12:12 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPx.jpg)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I salute your teacher and the others.

I cannot but notice the vast difference between MEN like them and the puling morons at salon.


42 posted on 12/03/2014 3:15:37 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And To Think, They Didn’t Need To Buy Soccer Balls or Teddy Bears…

Posted on December 3, 2014

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/03/and-to-think-they-didnt-need-to-buy-soccer-balls-or-teddy-bears/


43 posted on 12/03/2014 3:16:35 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Travis McGee

So true. Obama’s policy is a deliberate assault on the object of his greatest loathing, the United States of America.


44 posted on 12/03/2014 3:18:15 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents and supporters are Traitors.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think an illegally alien is more equipped to handle his job. Hope he ends up on unemployment due to an illegal alien.


45 posted on 12/03/2014 3:18:51 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Jewbacca

Exactly. In the eyes of the Left, he’s a bigoted old white man who hates minorities and women.


46 posted on 12/03/2014 3:25:13 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m guessing “92” should be “92 million.” Of which 55 million are women. Let’s be sure we know which groups are being hurt by this. I don’t have the figures handy for the young, or for recent college graduates in particular.

To say illegals don’t take the jobs of Americans is misleading. While they may not take the very same jobs that Americans would like to have, they skew the labor pool toward lower wages by flooding the market with the unskilled. It’s “trickle-up,” if you will, unemployment.

Any dope could see that. We don’t need the brilliant statisticians who determine that we’re not trying for the same jobs.


47 posted on 12/03/2014 3:31:27 PM PST by firebrand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The racist DemoKKKrats at Salon are stuck in the tar baby and are screaming RACIST in an effort to extricate themselves. I’m loving it.


48 posted on 12/03/2014 3:36:01 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...massive investments in public education and job training programs...”

They can ask Walter Williams and Dr. Ben Carson how much good that would do.... I’ll definitely buy the “job training” part of it. Why or how did the vocational programs get dropped from schools? Because they got results?


49 posted on 12/03/2014 3:40:11 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: firebrand

My local restaurants, from fast-food to white tablecloth, are thick with probable illegal employees. Those are not exactly “jobs Americans won’t do” now are they? I was an HR rep in a cell-phone refurbishing plant several years ago. Almost all the temps were probably sans green card.


50 posted on 12/03/2014 3:41:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Cruz’s despicable immigration strategy: Tea Party favorite attempts to drive racial wedge

So a Republican uses a long running Democrat strategy and now Salon thinks it is a bad thing. Can’t find anytime that Salon thought it was a bad thing when the Democrats did it...


51 posted on 12/03/2014 3:44:35 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Repubiican or a Democrat.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

“Isn’t one of Alinsky’s stratagems to accuse your enemy of what you yourself are doing?”

No, Rats have been doing that for a century. Alinsky wasn’t smart enough to think of that. Alinsky’s main strategy involved training liberals to act like 50 IQ savages.


52 posted on 12/03/2014 3:47:22 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any New Yorker can tell you that the entire food industry is staffed with illegals, from the bike delivery guys to the chefs, who put hot pepper in everything.

Because we’re a “sanctuary” city, they get away with it. I wish they wouldn’t use that word “sanctuary,” which makes what they do sound holy in some way. This “sanctuary” stuff makes it possible for someone’s political enemies to go after him for doing exactly what everybody else does (not mentioning who). When we ignore lawbreaking, that’s what happens.


53 posted on 12/03/2014 3:52:29 PM PST by firebrand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
to block President Barack Obama’s executive unconstitutional action offering deportation relief blanket amnesty for up to 5 million unauthorized illegal immigrants.

Wow. George Orwell himself could not have penned a more thorough piece of misleading double-speak.

54 posted on 12/03/2014 3:57:30 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

i love this. I want to see Sharpton take down Cruz for claiming that the government is being unfair to black Americans.

Could we please get Sharpton on the record here, and perhaps on stage with Senator Cruz?

Bwahahahaha.


55 posted on 12/03/2014 4:23:46 PM PST by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: GeronL
TheMagicRaceBall photo MagicRaceBall_zps6b87f3a8.jpg

56 posted on 12/03/2014 4:49:52 PM PST by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: Fresh Wind

Smells like poo.


57 posted on 12/04/2014 12:52:50 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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