Posted on 02/22/2016 6:16:16 PM PST by GilGil
I just heard the O'Reilly Factor where Cruz and Rubio were interviewed.
The first revelation is that their immigration policies when it comes to deporting illegals is virtually identical to Trump's including the part about rounding up the 11 million illegals and deporting them. I was simply amazed. O'Reilly asked both candidates if they would deport the 11 million illegals and they both said that they would. Six months ago they were not this clear about immigration deportations.
The more interesting answer was from Cruz. O'Reilly suggested that it could not be done because the illegals were entitled to the due process provision of the law. Cruz emphatically said that this was not true and that using ICE the president had the total legal authority to deport illegal aliens in this country. Cruz re-emphasized that with his legal background this was the case.
O'Reilly argued a bit with Cruz and Cruz said that he knew for a fact the president had the total legal authority to deport whoever is here illegally without going through the courts.
Cruz in essence confirmed that what Trump wanted to do regarding deportation all these months is 100% legal and doable under the authority given the president. That was an amazing admission on Cruz' part and a confirmation that Trump as president can indeed deport whoever is in the US illegally. It also confirms that Trump has some pretty good legal advisers on his team and that he knows exactly what he is talking about.
Why would you be amazed when Cruz was talking about that in 2011.
Won’t matter, trump supporters will call you names and say you are nuts.
Maybe Cruz is getting a bath of Christian honesty.
That's because six months ago they didn't want to deport. And six minutes after they're elected they won't want to deport.
It is what it is.
willy clinton deported millions and millions.
Did Beck come up? Concerned for him since he was fasting for Cruz today. I bet he cheated.
Cruz has been the ‘me too’ candidate for months.
Rubio was still pro amnesty last Friday. I doubt that he changed his mind.
11 million. What a joke.
Rubio HAHAHA said HAHAHAH what?
Hasn’t HAHAHA he HAHAHAHA said HAHAHA that HAHAHA before?
No reason to lie about Cruz’s record.
Not entirely true. Courts will find a way to slow down some of it but it doesn’t matter, if there’s a will, the President can certainly do plenty.
Give Trump credit, at least he’s got people talking about illegal immigration and enforcement - and you KNOW if Jeb or one of the other establishment apologists was the frontrunner right now, there would be absolutely ZERO discussion about enforcement and anyone who tried would be labelled instantly as a heartless Nazi.
Trump has made illegal immigration and its enforcement a legitimate, repectable topic for debate, instead of a taboo subject - and THAT alone is a sea-change from what was happening before!
Exactly. Maybe posting the video of Cruz as SG in 2011 would refresh their memory.
Very true and the determination of “illegal” will be where the slow down takes place. Once determination has been made, off they can Go.
Really? Because in 2013, Cruz was trying to give them LPR status in the Gang of Eight bill.
“If this amendment is adopted to the current bill, the effect would be that those 11 million under this current bill would still be eligible for RPI status. They would still be eligible for legal status and indeed, under the terms of the bill, they would be eligible for LPR status as well so that they are out of the shadows, which the proponents of this bill repeatedly point to as their principal objective to provide a legal status for those who are here illegally to be out of the shadows. ... I don’t want immigration reform to fail. I want immigration reform to pass. And so I would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle, if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration, and that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows. Then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromised to come together. And this amendment, I believe, if this amendment were to pass, the chances of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CwVrfydjOI
This is impossible because Trump!
No, no, no! You don't understand! It didn't happen until/unless Trump said it! Those other guys who've been saying this stuff for years...pffffft Trump's the man!!!
Now, where do I go to get the kool-aid?
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