Posted on 01/05/2016 8:29:20 AM PST by conservativejoy
Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won't
"He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that."
Ted Cruz said during an appearance in Iowa on Monday that there's a difference between him and Donald Trump on immigration.
The Texas senator, who is leading the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa according to the latest polls, was asked by a man in the state if, like Trump, he believed that all undocumented immigrants should be deported.
Cruz replied, "Absolutely yes."
"And in fact, look, there's a difference," said Cruz. "He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that."
Cruz is on a six-day trip around the state to shore up support for his candidacy. He made the remarks during an appearance in Boone. The video of the exchange was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday.
Here's a transcript of the exchange:
QUESTIONER: Both you and Donald Trump are really strong on immigration, but he supports deporting all the illegal immigrants. Are you willing to say the same?
TED CRUZ: Absolutely, yes. We should enforce the law.
Q: All?
T.C.: We should enforce the law.
Q: Ok.
T.C.: And in fact, look, there's a difference. He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.
Q: So no citizens and all of them?
T.C.: So, if you read I have a very detailed 11-page immigration proposal that's on my website it's TedCruz.org. It was designed with Steve King and Jeff Sessions were the two who sat down with me to prepare it and it is enforce the law across the board.
Has Ted even said the word DEPORT yet???
I think it is too early to have any effect yet, but it will be interesting to see if that changes the landscape any.
Cutting out the middleman is the whole point of his campaign!
Glad you finally see it
>>”He’s advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.”
That’s foolish, and a losing position.
I know, how stupid is that position?!
It leaves him looking like a hateful bigot. That position short-changes our country’s future.
Of course we should SELECT the best, brightest talent, to assimilate into our country.
What is he thinking? Good Grief!
He has all the money he needs, now he just wants POWER and he will say whatever he needs to say to get it.
Have you been somewhere cut off from communication with the rest of civilization? Even if you have, just by this statement today, Cruz says he won’t let them back in. In order for them to be out, they have to have been deported.
Thats foolish, and a losing position.
It's foolish to oppose allowing people who broke into our country illegally to become citizens? Is that what you are saying? Am I wrong?
Cruz has never advocated this position in his life. He is saying anything he can to win Iowa.
Cruz and Sessions wrote legislation to protect American Jobs from immigration.
Did it work ?
Sounds like somebody that should be running our country.
So vote for the phoney who takes in money through big donations who will do them favors at the costs of the tax payers and country?
No thanks
I would rather vote for the billionaire who tells them to screw off
Trump bought politicians for years. He Was the donor you are talking about. The donors that support Cruz are closed border evangelicals. They support Cruz because he represents their views.
Cruz makes it clear what he stands for. Donors who are like minded can support him if they choose to do so, but he is not going to change positions.
“Cruz makes it clear what he stands for. Donors who are like minded can support him if they choose to do so, but he is not going to change positions.”
Just a couple during this election...flip flops
1. Cruz teamed up with Ryan in April on a Wall Street Journal op-ed supporting fast track and insisting the legislation ensures Congress gets a final say.
“That Cruz would use the same talking points as him is interesting and probably disappointing to many conservatives,” wrote Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle. “That Boehner is using Cruz to push Obamatrade is probably even more disappointing to most conservatives.” http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/cruz-defends-trade-support-against-conservative-criticism.html/
2. ‪Cruz In 2013 On Providing Legal Status To Illegal Immigrants‬ (his amendment)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CwVrfydjOI&feature=youtu.be
3. Cruz did support legalizing them all and deporting none of them. He says that isn’t amnesty.
CRUZ.....Expand legal immigration - double it! 500% increase on H1B Visas. LEGAL status for all illegals
HIS words, short and sweet, in the first minute!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnuWLuAbCw&feature=youtu.b
4. Laura Ingraham: But they abuse that...the H1B thing is one of the most abused vehicles that corporations are using today...Disney just laid off a bunch of Americans- I assume you don’t support that? 150 Americans laid off by Disney...bringing in the foreign replacements...and they’re training their foreign replacements...I mean, that’s an H1B visa person we need!? I don’t get that...you don’t support the way they did that, do you?
TC: I, uh, um, I don’t know the facts of that Disney example-
LI: I just told you the facts!
5.Ted Cruz dodges questions on deportation
“Why is it so hard? Why don’t you just say yes or no?” Kelly asked
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/megyn-kelly-ted-cruz-immigration-question-121756
“He has all the money he needs, now he just wants POWER and he will say whatever he needs to say to get it.”
That is your uninformed opinion,based on no incident you can show but in fact, Ted Cruz needs BOTH! Cruz has never done anything but be a paid mouthpiece and run for higher office on our $$$.
No one owns Donald Trump.
Yes you are wrong, think.
I don’t know if you are serious. I was.
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear....YES, I agree with you.
What you wrote is absolutely accurate.
Probably so, but Cruz is late to the game for wanting to deport all of the illegals. He is on record (video) calling for legalization of illegals, so they can “come in out of the shadows”). Wouldn’t take long to locate that on You-tube.
You know good and well what that amendment was for. Cruz has explained, Jeff Sessions has explained, Mike Lee has explained it, Steve King has explained it. Sessions used the same parliamentary tactic in offering poison pill amendments to the Gang of 8 Bill. It exposed the Dems true goal was to convey citizenship and nothing less.
Watch the videos. He was gung-ho over his amendments. Said they would make the gang of eight bill okay. It he was lying then, and he seemed to be 100% sincere, how can you tell if he is not lying now?
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