No, he doesn't support amnesty. That's a lie.
Re-read the title of this thread:
Ted Cruz Evades Important Question:
Would You Deport U.S. Citizens? (Does this even make sense?)
MK wanted a simplistic answer, (that could be used to damage repubs), to a complex question/issue.
Cruz gave a good answer and outlined some of what will be required for Americans to begin to adress it.
Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration
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.
Would You Deport U.S. Citizens? (Does this even make sense?) MK wanted a simplistic answer, (that could be used to damage repubs), to a complex question/issue.
He could have answered yes he would deport the parents and if there was no legal guardian or US relative able to take care of the children, they would have to go with them. Moreover, he should have said that children should remain with their parents.