Why would you be amazed when Cruz was talking about that in 2011.
Exactly. Maybe posting the video of Cruz as SG in 2011 would refresh their memory.
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
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?
If Cruz was talking about it in 2011, his balls dropped off sometime after that, because for 9 months during this Presidential campaign he would not talk about what to do with the illegals already here.
Well, this debate doesn't matter too much anymore. Cruz is toast.
Why would you be amazed when Cruz was talking about that in 2011.
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The problem you are laboring with is that none of them (Cruz or Rubio) are straight talkers like Trump. They are politicians, always triangulating two sides against the middle. Enough already of talking out of two sides of their mouth, The law has always been there, they have been playing games with us at the expense of the country and we know it.
What Mr. Cruz has tried to articulate in both word and deed is a middle ground. It got no support from Democrats in Washington, but it goes further than many on the far right want to go by offering leniency to undocumented immigrants here already: A path to legal status, but not to citizenship. A green card with no right to naturalization.
Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Mr. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.
Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,†he 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.
Mr. Cruz said recent polling indicated that people outside Washington support some reform, including legal status without citizenship. He said he was against naturalization because it rewarded lawbreakers and was unfair to legal immigrants. It also perpetuates illegal crossings, he added.
Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.
And in 2013 Cruz was talking legal status. and in the beginning of this campaign, Cruz said nothing - pretty much ignored the issue. only after he saw what Trump said was popular did he copy.
Looks like he’s still copying.
Cruz pushing Path to Legal Status for ALL Illegals
Cheap Foreign Workers on H1-B visa
Pushing import of Syrian Refugees
Video's do not lie. Believe Your Lyin Eyes!