Cruz is indeed for giving work permits to illegals. He says he’s only against green cards because they provide a path to citizenship. But it doesn’t really matter that he wants to stop short of citizenship. If tens of millions of illegals are given work permits, they’ll ultimately end up with citizenship and their citizenship numbers, through chain migration, ultimately close to tripled.
I know this article has been pointed out to you before, but here it goes again:
““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.
Mr. Cruz said the Obama administration and partisan Democrats would not yield on the citizenship requirement, which they know would kill the entire effort because of a lack of support in the House. The result, he said, will be a future campaign tool by which Democrats can blame Republicans for failing to overhaul immigration.
“If your objective is actually to pass a bill insisting on a path to citizenship, it is in both intent and effect a poison pill,” he said, adding that he thinks many of the immigration groups working on the issue are “being taken advantage of.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/cruz-tries-to-claim-the-middle-ground-on-immigration.html?_r=0
I’ll say it again, this is the NY Times. They are not to be trusted at all.
Ted Cruz has stated ***clearly*** that he is not giving one benefit to illegal aliens because it is unfair to legal immigrants.
If you’re not satisfied, then call Senator Cruz’s office in the morning and ask for the official position. They will give it to you.