....."[Ted Cruz's] amendments are among more than 300 filed by the Tuesday evening deadline. Republicans wanting tighter enforcement provisions filed a majority of the amendments, with Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, leading the pack with 77 amendments.
Supporters of the bill, mainly of the part of it that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, kept a steady drumbeat in defense of the measure though emails, websites and social media.
In a press release, America’s Voice, a leading national group that advocates for more lenient immigration laws, singled out Cruz’s anti-citizenship amendment as particularly worrisome.
“This would not only destroy the path to citizenship in the Senate bill-the popular heart of an immigration reform solution-but also turn its back on 100 years of precedent in immigration policy,” said the release..........
Dec 17, 2015: More
...”The bipartisan group of eight senators - including battle-tested veterans and relative newcomers like Rubio - painstakingly negotiated a delicate compromise in early 2013 that would overhaul every corner of the U.S. immigration system, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions here illegally.
Fans and foes of the legislation, as well as observers at the time, knew the core bill couldn’t change too dramatically because that would upset that compromise, which not only had the backing of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate but also coalitions off the Hill, such as labor unions and the business lobby.
Cruz’s amendment - which called for stripping out a pathway to citizenship, but keeping a path for legalization - would have done precisely that.
The night before each Senate Judiciary Committee markup, senior Gang of Eight aides would huddle to scour through each of the amendments that were teed up for the following day, determining which proposals would be palatable and which would be unacceptable. This strategy was meant to ensure the core elements of the Gang of Eight deal would stay intact (the four members of the Gang who sat on the Judiciary Committee would vote in a bloc, usually with the rest of the committee Democrats, to vote down potential deal-killers).
“This one was one that clearly we all had to oppose because it went to the core of the deal,” recalled an aide to a Senate Democrat during the 2013 negotiations. “It could’ve unraveled the whole deal.”
Sure, Cruz himself never called it a “poison pill” at the time. But no senator refers to his own proposal as a poison pill, even if it plainly is. The Gang of Eight never considered Cruz as “gettable,” and it was well-known at the time that Cruz was never going to vote for the bill and was in fact, trying to kill it.
“Everyone was rolling their eyes and smirking when he said it would improve the bill,” said the aide. “I don’t think anybody took it seriously.”...
You need white and black democrats to get on board in numbers in the long term to get any of it through congress.
Trump can spark this revolution.
Trump did. Did not hear much about it from elected officials until Trump started talking about it. Vote Trump.
CW, isn’t Cruz putting Neil Bush on his campaign staff more than enough proof that Cruz has become part of the elite cartel?
Trump talk and trump walk are two different things. He built trump towers with cheap polish labor, sure he settled a lawsuit with them.. Think they left after getting paid? Trump talk does not equal trump walk. He will keep and prob increase foreign workers with the progressive lie of Americans unqualified, unwilling workers. His record and his rhetoric are mutually exclusive, so which is true?
I trust Jeff Sessions and Sheriff Joe’s assessment.
What a joke of a question. NOBODY. I repeat NOBODY is better on immigration than Trump and it’s why he’s going to win.
Cruz is becoming more establishment with each and every day, now getting stuck in the Bush’s with Neil attaching himself to the campaign in Jebs name.
I still support Ted for VP though. I think the two men will form an unbeatable ticket.
Ted Cruz worked for the Bush administration. Yesterday it was announced that Neil Bush, the S&L fraudster has joined Team Cruz. Heidi Cruz works for Golden Sacks, and the North American Union program which wants to do away with our borders. Cruz has also taken in Jeb’s financial team. No Bush or Bush operatives would ever support anyone who they thought would be tough on illegals.
Cruz has the stink of warmed over Bush all over him.
I have to give the nod to Trump on the issue. He put everything on the line and made his name on this issue alone. It is a campaign issue now only because of Trump.
Cruz has a GOPe Bush working for him now. He’s dead to me now.
This is a joke. Right?
Which one is softest on immigration?
Donald is an AMERICAN who loves his country
Exploring Trumpism (Irritional people who refuse to see the truth.)
http://humanevents.com/2016/03/02/exploring-trumpism/
Trump Releases His Plan for 2nd Amendment… Leaves Millions Furious
http://conservativetribune.com/trump-plan-2nd-amendment/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=TheFederalistPapers&utm_content=2016-03-06&utm_campaign=manualpost
Trump Releases His Plan for 2nd Amendment… Leaves Millions Furious
http://conservativetribune.com/trump-plan-2nd-amendment/
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/second-amendment-rights
Trump’s Health Perfect, Except That Day He Got A Military Medical Deferment
http://www.alan.com/2015/12/17/trumps-health-perfect-except-that-day-he-got-a-military-medical-deferment/#
What a simple question. Run down to your local Super Mercado and buy two Penyatas. Get a Trump one and get a ....... oh yea, that’s right. They don’t have Cruz penyatas.
You don’t have a local Super Mercado you say? Well that might explain why you still don’t have a freakin clue what’s going on in this country!
Depends if the question is asked before, or after the deal making occurs.