Posted on 12/17/2015 7:03:30 PM PST by RatherBiased.com
The Cruz presidential campaign is now claiming that the senator's attempted amendments and statements were only designed to be so-called "poison pills," a legislative trick designed to get supporters of a bill to vote against it. That was also the line Cruz took in an interview yesterday with Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
But that does not square with the fact that weeks after the legislation failed in the House, Cruz was still talking up how he wanted to grant permanent resident status to illegal immigrants in an interview with the Texas Tribune in September:
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. 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. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
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, Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000.
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Give it up.
Establishment will get another establishment nominee if conservatives and the rest don’t reject their ALinsky attack on Cruz. The establishment will burn it all down for Hillary. Cruz is solidly against amnesty, no if’s and’s or but’s about it.
Give it up, honesty is not something that Cruzer’s value in a candidate anymore.
Interesting the user name of the article poster. Maybe that is really Dan Rather.
This is from a site called “ratherbiased”?
Doubling down are we?
Literally the opposite. Attacked and brought down Dan Rather. But thanks for playing.
Not endorsing or playing for any candidate. Just want truth.
I don’t know who said what but if you did not apply for being here, then GTFO ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dal8QZ95Nqo
Cruz voted no.
Thanks, newbie.
WHO GIVES A RIP?
RUBIO WAS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE GANG OF EIGHT!
Funny. Rubio is trying to say Cruz supported his amnesty bill and then attack him for it.
This generation of politicians are dumber than a box of rocks.
Ted Cruz did say he support the gang of 8 bill if they would add a provision that would bar those granted amnesty from voting for 25 years. He only did it to prove the point that amnesty was all about creating millions of new registered Democrats. He was right the Democrats shot down his provision.
Obammie and Grandma Clinton support open borders for radical Islamoterrorist so whats the point? I guess we can let the Mexicans and Muzzies fight over this joint. Americans don’t seem to shive a git about this country. They’re wrapped up with taking selfies of themselves standing in line to see Star Wars.
And that’s a fair point to be used against Rubio.
Cruz needs to own up to his former position. Lots of flip-flopping in this race.
We don’t care that his competitors are trying to drag him down. Texas conservatives are proud of Ted Cruz.
I was paying attention then. Were you? Cruz was a vocal critic of the Gang of 8 and introduced his amendments to “strengthen” the bill in a way that put its sponsors on the spot as to their real intent.
He voted against the bill.
Sometimes I wish JR would just boot these idiots off for good. It is such a waste of time and bandwidth for the Rubio jock straps to just keep on keeping on posting the lies about Cruz when other senators involved have stated what happened.
It seems we have had at least 100 postings and thousands of comments. Time we have wasted that we will never get back.
Read the article. He supported legalization long after the bill. Even this year. His own spokeswoman admitted it in March.
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