“He has previously said that he would legalize illegals here currently.”
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Anyone who doesn’t believe that this is going to happen is not keeping up with the reality of politics. These illegals cannot vote, but they are married to, parents of, relatives of, employees of and tenants of legal, voting Americans who will turn on the GOP if they are deported. We have to push for the best possible resoution (closing the borders while getting these people on the tax rolls, but not the voting rolls), instead of the perfect resolution.
Those relatives already vote against the GOP and will be dwarfed by the numbers allowed to vote via legalization.
Better that we enforce our laws vigorously, don’t overwhelm our system with majority welfare-dependent, low-skill Latinos who overwhelmingly break the pattern of positive assimilation seen in other immigrant populations, and will multiple those ill effects via chain migration.
As already seen, a good percentage (I believe at least 6%) of illegals are already voting, and that number goes up the minute Obama grants even just stays of deportation, as he’s doing now with ‘executive amnesty’.
But even if one were to buy in on your bogus pro-amnesty argument, that doesn’t excuse Cruz or Walker for their dissembling for their political ambitions. On that front, I’d actually give Jeb credit for at least being honest about his intentions.
(All that said, Cruz still seems to me the best candidate headed into the race.)