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Posted on 04/29/2015 1:34:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Wednesday that he has never seen a Hispanic person begging for money on the street.
"I don't think I've ever seen an Hispanic panhandler. And the reason is: In our community it would be shameful to be begging on the street," Cruz said.
Cruz, who is of Cuban descent, made the point while speaking in Washington at a question-and-answer session with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
He used the example to argue the Republican Party should be able to compete for the Latino vote. Hispanics, Cruz said, share many of the same values that are championed by GOP leaders....
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Are you still buzzing in my ear, gnat?
Ted Cruz Ping! He also strongly supports securing our borders.
Stop trying to twist up the facts into a lie.
My objection is to what he said about legal immigration - he’s for it, he said. Most people, when they find out that over a million LEGAL immigrants are allowed in, per year, will state that that is excessive. How many times have you heard about the millions of unemployed Americans? Every immigrant that comes over either takes a job from an American or takes taxpayer money. There is no other possibility. I figure Cruz knows that. Just legal immigration alone has transformed America. More legal immigration will do it quicker; if you like your country, you can’t keep your country. Incidentally, I don’t lie. Sometimes, like everyone else, I speculate, but speculation is not lying.
Fact is, 90% of the panhandlers I see are white, lots of times near “Now Hiring” signs.
those are gypsies
I can’t recall ever spotting a hispanic panhandler either. They are either white or black. Mostly white, come to think of it.
I lived in Brownsville for a few years, I don’t recall any shortage of Mexican panhandlers. More importantly, the official currency in most stores seemed to be food stamps.
There’s plenty of Mex in Amarillo.
Wow, that's going to offend a certain other group.
However panhandling today looks a lot like an EBT card next to a cell phone sitting in a nice SUV.
Wonder if he spends any time outside the Home Depot?
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The Home Depot or Lowes crowd that I’m familiar with are
there early each morning looking for a day labor job.
However, one thing in Walker's favor is that he's the only likely candidate to even bring up the fact that illegal immigration is only the tip of the iceberg. A lot of the current flood of Third World immigrants came here completely legally, and many who claim to want to see "something" done about illegal immigration really think that the right thing to do is to make it easier for even more people to come here legally.
Again, I'm not sure that I trust Walker, but I'm still glad somebody recognizes that legal immigration is also a major source of cultural, economic, and demographic problems.
If they have minimum-wage jobs combined with 5-10 kids per family (born to teen parents), which seems to be their norm, they're still on the welfare and food stamp dole.
We have Hispanic panhandlers here too, usually pregnant women. They work the parking lots of strip malls. They don’t carry signs they actually work for it. lol They walk from car to car of people getting out of their cars and ask for money.
I’m not saying we should end all legal immigration. I’m saying we should be a lot more restrictive of who is allowed in. We shouldn’t be in the business of importing poverty, and we should recognize that some groups of immigrants are much more readily assimilated culturally and socio-economically than others.
Oh please. You don’t get guys occasionally requesting to be paid in cash?
They’re working, they’re not begging. There’s a difference.
“Begging for work?” There’s no such thing. Begging is asking for something for nothing.
I’d call it looking for work. Which is a righteous pursuit.
Poverty, illiteracy, gang activity, and teen pregnancy fit in much better with Republicans?
California was once a paradise. Then it became an extension of Mexico and turned into a hellhole.
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