Ted Cruz Becomes the Second GOP Candidate to Attack Megyn Kelly [Watch Video]

Pajamas Media ^ | 08/26/2015 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz criticized Fox News’ Megyn Kelly for asking a question about deporting illegal immigrants that “every mainstream media liberal journalist wants to ask.”

The Hill:

“If you have a husband and wife who are illegal immigrants, and they have two children here who are American citizens — would you deport all of them? Would you deport the American citizen children?” Kelly asked.

“Megyn, I get that that’s the question you want to ask,” Cruz said after repeatedly listing the steps Congress should take for addressing the issue. “That’s also the question every mainstream media liberal journalist wants to ask. They focus exclusively on 12 million people.”

Kelly then took issue with Cruz’s response, insisting that her question was fair.

“Is it an unfair question?” she asked the Texas lawmaker.

“It is a distraction from how we actually solve the problem,” Cruz responded. “You know, it’s also the question that [President] Barack Obama wants to focus on.”

“But why is it so hard? Why don’t you just say yes or no?” Kelly countered.

Cruz argued that the U.S. must secure its borders and overturn Obama’s executive order on immigration before addressing the issue of birthright citizenship and related deportations.

Cruz’s remarks come as Kelly is also feuding with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination next year.

Trump has repeatedly challenged Kelly’s credibility as a journalist following her questioning of him during the first GOP presidential debate earlier this month.

Cruz and Trump have repeatedly struck a friendly tone toward one another while campaigning for next year’s election.

Cruz has vowed he is avoiding Republican-on-Republican attacks because it is counterproductive to the conservative cause.

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Kelly asked a question that many people want an answer to; i.e., specific policy proposals regarding how deportation is going to work. Sure it’s a hard question, but Cruz was obviously unprepared to answer it. So instead of making a fumbling and mumbling response, he attacked the messenger. No doubt good politics but it hardly recommends him as a candidate who can stand the gaff of a long campaign.

The idea that it’s a “liberal journalist” question to wonder how deportation is going to work in the real world is laughable. Are reporters not allowed to ask for any specifics regarding policy? Are they supposed to be fawning sycophants like news personalities at MSNBC and CNN?

Kelly is not going to put on a short skirt and wave pom-poms for the GOP base. She is doing her job, and judging by her ratings, she is doing it well enough for millions of people to tune in every night. She asked a perfectly fair question of someone who wants to be elected to the highest office in the land. Perhaps it’s time for Cruz and Trump to abandon the cheap applause lines attacking journalists and speak intelligently to the issues.

What a change that would be.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Why is it so hard to say that any hardship on a child citizen, be it a trip down south with his parents or a trip to the orphanage, is squarely on the shoulders of his law-breaking parents.

The complication is this — THE CHILD IS TODAY (emphasis) CONSIDERED AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BY OUR LAWS ( whether we like it or not ).

You can lawfully deport the illegal parent(s), but you can;t deport the child.

Therefore, if you deport the parent(s), you are tearing up the family.

I’ve see FReepers give many different answers:

1) Send the child to an orphanage

2) Send him to foster care

3) Give him up for adoption.

All are legitimate answers, but regardless, it does not make you look good.

[Fledermaus]

What law? Name it.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

And talk about her tits on Howard Stern.

[DoughtyOne]

From a woman that can’t gasp why a nine year old spat between Trump and O’Donnell wasn’t a debate worthy subject, you just have to accept she’s not all that bright.

There was probably no slight intended. She just that dumb.

You have to feel kind of sorry for this prime example of the Peter Principle.

Aile’s seems to be a great example too now that it’s all on the table.

[RightGeek]

That’s what I would say too. .... Kids go with parents.

[DoughtyOne]

Are you saying you’d live your children behind?

Not me.

[olezip]

Criticizing Kelly for her gotcha questions and apparent vendetta is fair game.

I did watch the clip on the web. Kelly needs another time out to think about how to be a journalist newscaster.

Her hostile demeanor and gotcha questions do nothing but waste everybody's time. Demanding a yes/no answer for a hypothetical situation is far from an intelligent assessment of the problems and potential solutions on how to deal with the continuing flood of illegal immigrants and abject and total failure of our government to enforce the law.

The leftists want to jump on the practicality of how are we going to deport 20 million illegals. Instead she should realize and acknowledge that common sense says to stop the leak first. Get rid of illegal alien gang members and convicted criminals in our jails. Stop them from coming back when they have been deported.

Then take the time needed to deal with the illegal aliens in an orderly fashion after the leakage has been stopped.

Instead, like other leftists in the media Kelly and her ilk want to make up gotcha questions so they can congratulate one another on how clever they are. Those days are over now that we have "adult supervision" in the room.

[oldbrowser]

“It is a distraction from how we actually solve the problem,” Cruz responded.

Let me break it down for you.
Cruz is saying that her question is the wrong question. It is putting the cart before the horse.

First and foremost we must shut the invasion down. Secondly we have to sort through all of these people and make some decisions. Outright criminals and deadbeats have to go back immediately. People that have been here illegally for up to three generations, own homes businesses, have children and grandchildren and are pillars of the community. Maybe we want to keep them. Others in between we have to look at on a case by case basis. It is going to be very difficult to make those choices.

However, at this point it is a distraction to start trying to make judgments before we have dealt with the priority of getting control of our borders.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

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[brothers4thID]

Cruz is not pro-amnesty.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/07/ted-cruz/ted-cruz-most-gop-candidates-have-supported-amnest/

[Company Man]

Proudly Fox free since Snarkapalooza Gotchafest - Aug. 6, 2015

[nhwingut]

OK, what should be the right way to answer the question -— DO YOU WANT TO TEAR UP FAMILIES?

Ted Cruz is a lot smarter than me. And has millions of dollars to pay experts to come up with answers for these kind of questions. This question is not going away. It was the biggest story of the day (after O'Reilly asked Trump the night before). How could Cruz not think he'd be asked the same question? You can't just say, that's a liberal gotcha question. I'm sure Cruz will be better prepared next time.

[bootless]

I fail to see the attack.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Ailes is very bright. He used to be a Reagan Republican many years ago. He sold his soul to the devil. Very sad.

[LibWhacker]

Slutty Megan is just angling for an anchor chair at CNN, NBC, etc., and knows her only shot is to make a big splash and ingratiate herself with the left-leaning heads of those networks. There is no better place to make a big splash than a presidential debate. We’ve seen it before.

[Fledermaus]

Right off the top, section (a) states “ a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;”.

Illegal aliens are NOT under the jurisdiction of the United States. Period. And jurisdiction doesn’t mean laws. I suggest listening to Mark Levin on this along with reading Andrew McCarthy, Hans Von Spon....(can’t spell it), etc.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

...specific policy proposals regarding how deportation is going to work.

1) Tip comes in on the illegal alien tip line.
2) ICE agents swarm in pick them up and deposit them in a holding tank.
3) Judge reviews their case and decides they're illegal aliens.
4) They are deposited by bus, train or plane in their country of origin.
5) Tipper gets paid $500 bounty.
6) Repeat 30 million times.

[brothers4thID]

1. We are not deporting the children. We are deporting their parents. There would be, under current case law, no legal basis to “deport” the children.

2. HOWEVER, we can’t force those “citizen children” to stay in the US either. This is America: we don’t restrict the international travel of our citizens. The parents have the absolute right to take their children with them when they are deported.

3. The children are not guilty of a crime. Only pro-abortion liberals punish children for the very act of being born. Only liberals think it would be a good idea to split up families.

4. What a racists question. Why does Megyn think that illegal immigrants are heartless, soul-less parents willing to leave their children behind?

[William Tell]

The question being asked is: “If you have a husband and wife who are illegal immigrants, and they have two children here who are American citizens — would you deport all of them? "

The answer is really simple. NO. There is no legal mechanism for "deporting" U.S. citizens.

The parents, however, should be deported. Why are people making this so complicated?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Under current law, as it has been interpreted and enforced under the Code of Federal Regulations, yes, they are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. Period.

Again, there is an open question as to whether Congress could clarify the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” and exclude the children of illegals, but Congress has not done so, meaning that, as things stand now, the children of illegals ARE citizens.

I’m not arguing what the law should be (I tend to agree that they should not be citizens, as that is a significant motivator for people to cross the border/fly over here). I’m just saying how things are working, right now.