Posted on 02/19/2016 8:50:46 PM PST by TBP
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz has praised Donald Trump for making illegal immigration a central issue of the Republican presidential race, but in an exclusive interview with ABC News, Cruz said that Trump’s immigration plan amounts to amnesty.
"So Donald Trump's position is once you deport them, it's what's called touchback. A lot of establishment Republicans had touchback," Cruz said in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. "Basically you make them fly back to their country for a minute, touch the ground, and then they come back with amnesty as citizens. Now, Donald is entitled to do that. He can advance that position, but he doesn't get to pretend that it's not amnesty if he's legalizing 12 million people [who are] here illegally."
Cruz also accused Trump of latching onto the issue of illegal immigration for political gain. Cruz said Trump was notably absent during the battle over the “Gang of Eight†immigration reform bill in 2013.
"I would note at that time, right in the middle of the fight, Donald Trump was publicly supporting amnesty. He was supporting Marco Rubio's Dream Act," Cruz said. "He was criticizing Mitt Romney for being too tough on immigration. That's where Donald Trump was in 2013. Now, when he launched his campaign for president, suddenly he discovered illegal immigration was a problem."
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My God, Cruz just makes stuff up and goes on national tv with it. What a snake!
Trump wants to round them up by the million and deport them.
Cruz wont deport them by the million because the Rio Grande Hispanics who voted for Wendy Davis are conservative.
The touchback amnesty “conservative firebrand” Mike Pence( favorite of the beltway conservative media groups, hotair,etc.) proposed a constant flow of illegals travelling back to Ellis Island type places in Mexico.
Are you an agent-provocateur for the establishment cabal, or do you think that Ted Cruz is Yah’s dedicated servant to restore Christian dominance in America, or are you just so blind you can not see what is going on in America, today?
Trump said they go and he brings them back by law. Amnesty?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3145482/posts
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/16/why-not-mike-pence-in-2016/
Who is touchback Pence endorsing?
Definitely not Trump. Probably Cruz or Rubio.
Thanks for the month old article. Cruz is going to win tomorrow because of your sukbission. Good job.
Finally, that’s exactly what I have said here...Donald Trump is pushing touchback amnesty and benefits from the media ignoring that the deportations will be followed by a swift return as Eric Trump complained. The other problem is Trumpkins are slavish to the Donald and won’t scrutinize his plan better as evidenced by Trump saying he would build a wall with a big open door!
The good ones he said. That’s a stupid part of the plan. I believe Trump is the only one willing to deport millions of them and I doubt all of them would even bother to come back.
Some will seek asylum in Canada. Mexican gangmembers can seek asylum from rival Salvadorn gang members. Send another million of them to Argentina.
Expediting them back by new law would be amnesty.
Ted Cruz is in total desperation mode right now, wildly slinging mud, hoping something will stick. Too bad he can’t tout his own virtues. Maybe because he has none.
Everyone knows that Trump is the ONLY reason illegal immigration is even an issue.
Only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. That’s what Trump has done.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
What that he said did he “ make up”??????
By “let the good ones back in” he means the illegal aliens that work at his golf courses, hotels and restaurants.
He said about 450 million times that the can come back legally. In no way is touchback amnesty legal, it would have to be made a law.
He also talked about expediting where possible, farm workers whatever on temporary work permits. But he has always said legally, only if they’re legal.
Damn Ted your lies are over the top. Enough already!
Trump calls them rapists, Cruz calls them Republicans.
and what does he mean by " brings them back by law."? Would that be close to what Clinton said "it depends on what the meaning of is' is?"
Okay, it’s officially Saturday. In a few hours all this Cruz Crap will be in the rear-view mirror.
He made up the whole touchback amnesty thing, invented it, created it, lied about it. Trump has never said that or anything close to it.
He says over and over again they can only come back legally. Said he would try to expedite where possible, farm workers whatever but touchback amnesty is not legal and Trump has never supported that.
Legally!
No, Trump calls them employees in Miami.
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