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“Look, I know it is hard for you to comprehend that some of us already KNOW the track records of our candidates.”

OK since you see to lack the will or ability to speak to your own candidate’s immigration position here it is.

1. secure the border by tripling the border patrol and building a partial fence. (700 miles of fence)
2. increase H1-B Visas by 500% ( especially for people coming from India and Mexico.)
3. Provide a path to legal status for the law abiding illegals who are already here. (not citizenship)

Trumps’s position:

1. Build a wall/fence across the entire border between the US and Mexico and patrol it properly.
2. Provide a path to legal status for the productive law abiding illegals who are already here. (not citizenship)

So basically Trump and Cruz are almost in lock step on the issue.

Except Trump is not pushing the H1-B visas. He wants all the jobs going to American workers.

To repost this for you...no, it is not like Donnie amnesty’s position. BTW, what has he said about he recent SCOTUS rulings? Hmmmm....

This is simply not true. Ted Cruz has been a stanch supporter of the fence and brought it up in an amendment to the Gang of Eight effort in 2013:

Cruz 1320: Create border security triggers that can be measured objectively by Congress and provide the resources and capabilities necessary to secure the border.

Before any illegal immigrants could be legalized, DHS is required to:

Triple the number of Border Patrol agents on the southern border;

Quadruple the cameras, sensors, drones, helicopters, and other technology and infrastructure as appropriate

Complete all 700 miles of the fencing required by law in the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub, L. 109-367)

Develop a policy assuring real-time sharing of information among all federal law enforcement agencies regarding illegal border activity

Complete and fully implement the US-VISIT system, including the biometric entry-exit portion—as Congress has repeatedly mandated – so we will finally know those present in the country after their visa expires

Establish “operational control” over 100 percent of the southern border.

If DHS fails to substantially comply with any of these trigger requirements within 3 years, the salary of all DHS political appointees would be cut by 20 percent and 20 percent of DHS’s budget would be block granted to the states with the full authority to use those funds to secure the border;

This amendment is required to be fully offset. Either the appropriations committee must identify offsets, or it will be paid for by an automatic, across the board cut to non-defense spending – an approach supported in the past by many Republicans and the White House.

Unfortunately, the current Gang of 8 bill will not secure the border. It grants legal status for those here illegally when DHS simply drafts a plan for securing the border. And it then grants green cards to those individuals when DHS certifies, in its opinion, that the plan has been substantially completed based on subjective criteria. The bill does not require operational control of the entire border and does not provide the resources necessary to truly secure the border.