Sen Cruz does NOT favor legalization. He supports work permits that do NOT allow citizenship or legalization. This system used to work pretty well, prior the 1965 Heller Act. Once that passed, chain migration started, and you all know the “rest of the story”.
Giving work permits to illegals is making them legal—or, “legalization”.
And such legalization would ultimately lead to citizenship.
And chain migration would multiply the number of new citizens by a multiple over the present illegals.
“Sen Cruz does NOT favor legalization. He supports work permits that do NOT allow citizenship or legalization.”
Maybe we disagree on terminology, but it sounds to me that the people that are here illegally get to be registered and into our system - sounds like legalization.
We really need them, and their families, to go home first, and then we bring people in in a controlled manner.