Here is Cruz’ problem. He got into the race before Trump. He made a speech spelling out the basis of his candidacy. He didn’t mention a wall. He made no mention of the abject crisis on the border. Heaven knows he said nothing about deportation. Above all, he didn’t even hint at America’s catastrophic loss of sovereignty.
Additionally, his soccer ball and teddy bear Foreign Invader Welcoming Party was a window into his soul. That was the real Ted Cruz, serving the needs of Foreign Invaders before concerning himself with the carnage they inflict on America/Americans.
Speaking of which, it is a total and complete Obama/Alinsky MYTH that these were ‘kids.’ Most were late teens/early twenties gang bangers. Obama has been flooding the country with this devastating crime wave as part of his vile and hateful goal of fundamentally transforming the USA. And Cruz aided and abetted him—shame!
Trump subsequently entered the race. Unlike Cruz, he spoke of the foreign invader crisis, and of the need for a wall and for mass deportations. Most importantly, he detailed the absolutely devastating loss of sovereignty the US has suffered, and the critical urgency of restoring it. [There isn’t one Cruz supporter in a million that grasps the issue of sovereignty. That is why the fact that to this day Cruz has still not mentioned it bothers them not at all.]
Yes, Me-Too-Ted has been appropriating Trump’s immigration issues ever since—at least, after he saw how strongly they the resonated with voters, he began appropriating them. But that doesn’t change the fact that he couldn’t be bothered to mention such issues when he entered the primary. His biggest donors wouldn’t have liked it.
Cruz has shown us all who he is, and whose side he’s on. His supporters simply cannot/will not see it.
Caveat Emptor
Here's a quote for you to look up.
Trump is NO conservative. He’s a self-dealing charlatan and he’s got a lot of fall-for-anything chump types fooled.
I hear what you are saying. But I see a double-standard when it comes to accountability. For example, a month after entering the race, Donald Trump said that he would expedite the return of illegals back into the US. Yet Trump is not held to the same standard as Cruz. In 2012, Trump criticized Mitt Romney’s immigration position as being “mean-spirited”. Yet those words are forgotten as Trump continues to inflate the cost of his wall - a wall that he will allow expeditiously returning illegals to bypass.