Video: Ted Cruz Was Talking About a Wall YEARS Before Trump

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[SoConPubbie]

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[sparklite2]

Talk is cheap.

[bigbob]

He’s in the US Senate, where’s the bill to build a wall?

Doesn’t matter anyway, Trump OWNS The Wall.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ve lost count. How many bills did Cruz introduce to build a 60’ high wall that Mexico would pay for?

Thanks in advance.

[exist]

This is so silly. Ted Cruz moderated his position significantly after 2013 to prep for 2016. He very much toned down the rhetoric and hardly ever brought up the wall.

Trump has obviously flip-flopped all over the place on the issue.

Nobody is clean. Everyone flip-flopped. Everyone is fudging the truth. Supporters are twisting words to try to defend their candidate.

[SeaHawkFan]

Legislation was passed many years ago to build 700 miles of the wall. Obama simply ignored the law and refused to build it. Can’t blame that on Cruz.

[SpaceBar]

Cruz would have a hard time winning employee of the month in a flyover country walmart. He looks stupid, and will lose to Hillary.

[jazusamo]

Duh. I and many friends have talked about a wall for years...So?

[5thGenTexan]

Talk is cheap for Trump, too. Just how does he make Mexico pay for a wall that kills their second largest GDP producer? Bully tweets?

[Jane Long]

Trump/Wall 2016

[Kenny]

Makes the point that without Trump, Cruz will never get his ideas out there. Besides, other than playing victim, what has he done in the Senate. I mean what has he done besides pushing for TPA with Paul Ryan:

Ted Cruz joins the establishment

And oh yeah, voting for TPA cloture. But I digress.

[Mollypitcher1]

Yup, a great BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL!!! (Maybe we’ll put TRUMP on the doors just to rub it in.) And Mexico will pay wfor the wall, with Ford’s help, of course.

[mbrfl]

Cruz was asked if he agreed with someone else’s proposal to build a wall. This was his answer:

“Yes. We have an illegal immigration crisis and we need to do everything humanly possible to secure the border. That means fences, that means walls.”

Typical politician answer. He didn’t propose to build a wall on his own. He was just responding to someone else’s suggestion to build a wall, the way all good politicians respond - with a CYA answer. Notice how the question about building a wall subtley shifts in Cruz’s response to “...that means fences, that means walls”. Anyone except the perpetually gullible can see the wiggle room he leaves himself with that answer. He’s a good lawyer.

So we’re to believe that building a wall has always been something Cruz has been committed to from this little exchange? Why did it take him so long to mention it again? Cruz has been against amnesty as well as being in favor of having a discussion about it; against fighting birthright citizenship, and well as being in favor of ending it. Cruz has been all over the board on illegal immigration. Pretty pathetic of Patterico to try to claim that this interview proves that a President Cruz would build a wall, or that Cruz has been a leader on this issue.

[nopardons]

Blah...blah....blah....so WHERE is the WALL ?

He NEVER brought it up when he landed in the Senate!

Guess that's how he'll do as president too...just blah, blah, blah, and yet more blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Talking being the operative word here.

Trump is a doer.

[CA Conservative]

Cruz was campaigning on building a wall and tripling the Border Patrol back in 2011-2012. Back then, Trump was still calling Romney mean for wanting to use “self-deportation” or attrition through enforcement to remove illegals.

[nopardons]

Right....Ted will vote for something and then claim he dikdn't, then say it was for a different reason and get someone else to agree with that lie.

Cruz is all talk and NO hat!

He's a damned LIAR and has situational ethics to boot.

[map]

The Secure Fence Act of 2006's goal is to help secure America’s borders to decrease illegal entry, drug trafficking, and security threats by building 700 miles (1,100 km) of physical barriers along the Mexico-United States border. Additionally, the law authorizes more vehicle barriers, checkpoints, and lighting as well as authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to increase the use of advanced technology like cameras, satellites, and unmanned aerial vehicles to reinforce infrastructure at the border.[1] Congress approved $1.2 billion in a separate homeland security spending bill to bankroll the fence, though critics say this is $4.8 billion less than what’s likely needed to get it built. from Wikipedia

You are exactly right. Talk is cheap. Congressional action is even cheaper. This law was signed by GWB a decade ago.

What we need to get it done is leadership.

[nopardons]

Cruz just talks and obfuscates and rides on other people’s ideas. He’s a do nothing whinger and a FRAUD.

[lewislynn]

Ted Cruz Was Talking About a Wall YEARS Before Trump

So says the man with not one legislative accomplishment...not one.

All talk and no action.