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Re: “”Cruz is the only major candidate who has never supported or endorsed amnesty.”

Completely false.

From the New York Times, 12 September 2013...

Ted Cruz: “The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” [Cruz] said during a recent visit to El Paso. Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/cruz-tries-to-claim-the-middle-ground-on-immigration.html?_r=1

According to the text of the Gang of Eight Amnesty Bill, once an illegal immigrant receives the “underlying work permit,” he may apply at any time for a Green Card.

http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/amnesty_2013_debate/FAIR_S744_Registered-Provisional-Immigrant-Status_DREAM-Act_%20AgJOBS.pdf

Ted Cruz's record on LEGAL immigration is even more disturbing.

Cruz advocates a 5X increase for H1-B work visas. Cruz advocates an annual 650,000 Green Card increase. Cruz advocates special increases for Mexican immigrants. Cruz advocates increases for agricultural guest workers.

http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2014/01/sen-ted-cruz-on-immigration-reform-fighting-the-establishment-and-the-human-costs-of-illegal-immigration/

Cruz has never called for a reduction in our current level of LEGAL immigration - 1.25 million per year - which is the highest in American history.

Finally, Cruz has never explained why new immigration laws would be vigorously enforced in the future when our current immigration laws have not been enforced for the last 30 years!

Ok in an effort to confront another of this cycles concern troll...how about we try this. Instead of running down another candidate and lobbing a frag into a discussion about him and then running away....instead of all that, how about you tell us which candidate you support and how he or she is better than Cruz on immigration. Otherwise you're just a member of the circular firing squad that is SO destructive to our side and will be ignored accordingly

Oh and one other thing to all my FR friends...we should not expect perfect ideological purity on every issue from our candidates...the only person ON THE PLANET that I agree with 100% of the time is ME...seems like a tall order to demand that from somebody else. So you've got to pick and choose your important deal-breaker issues and also look at the sum total of where that person stands on the spectrum. But all that can be done without running the other guy thru a grinder of your own making.