Posted on 04/21/2015 2:36:11 PM PDT by kingattax
Which Republican presidential candidates support amnesty? I have analyzed all the major Republican presidential candidates (except Ben Carson and Rick Sanctorum, who are long shots, and Donald Trump, who has undocumented hair).
I have found that all the major presidential candidates support amnesty for illegal aliens, except for one. Can you guess which one?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
(Except in the Birther Loon Fever Swamp. )
Yep.
While I don't really trust Walker (or any of the others) on this issue, he's ahead in my book for at least saying the right things at this point.
Seems I read somewhere that Cruz supported an increase in H1B visas by several hundred percent. Right now Cruz seems to be the best candidate to fight illegal immigration but I’m not convinced any of them are trustworthy on this issue
Richardxc
Since Apr 20, 2015
You may wish to be more circumspect until you have an established track record.
are you kidding? obviously youre all for walker but respectfully, did you actually read this article ?
in the face of facts, you still want to make the same comment ?
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Scott Walker: Scott Walker backed the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill in 2006. But that was nine years ago!
Perhaps his position has evolved now. Okay, here's what he said in 2013, less than two years ago:
he went as far as to tell POLITICO in 2013 that he supported a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants provided “people who are in line right now have first preference.”
Scott Walker may be good on many things, but HE SUPPORTS AMNESTY. PERIOD. It's a shame, because he has really good hair.
I don’t think any of those articles really suggests that Cruz supports amnesty or illegal immigration. At most, the articles take bits and pieces of what Cruz has said or done and tried to make it look contradictory or passively supporting. The NY Times & MSNBC are not even reputable sources so I’ll only address the AmericanThinker.
The AmericanThinker article states that Cruz proposed amendments to the Gang of 8 immigration bill that would prevent naturalization, citizenship, and any benefits for illegal immigrants. He proposed these amendments because he could not prevent the legislation from moving forward. He said he would only vote for the bill if his amendments passed, which would have been poison pills for the libs and eventually kill the bill anyways. However, the amendments didn’t pass so he voted against the bill. Cruz’s stated intention was to kill the bill or, if the bill was projected to pass, then to make the best out of a bad bill by including his amendments.
Cruz has only advocated that certain illegals could be allowed to stay and given a TEMP legal work status for jobs in industries that may be reliant on illegal labor (i.e. agriculture). However, even this temporary legal status would have strict limits and would prevent the illegals from obtaining any permanent status or benefits AND would only be implemented AFTER the border is secured.
Basically, as two of the articles stated, Cruz has not supported illegal amnesty, but has supported reform of our legal immigration system and reform of our temp guest worker program. He also supports all illegals, even if given TEMP work statuses, to leave the country, wait their turn, and legally apply in order to legally immigrate to the U.S. permanently. This position is NOT amnesty and does NOT support any illegal immigration.
We have to be careful not to confuse amnesty with legal immigration/temp worker reform. Also, please don’t believe the lib media about anything regarding any conservative candidate.
Good Hair?? You mean except for his huge bald spot? LOL
Which Republican presidential candidates support amnesty?
If the GOP is determined to abandon the rule of law and our sovereignty as a nation, they’ll do it without my vote.
I said Walker has the best stated position.
Didn't say I believed him.
Typed like a modern Texan: giving work permits to illegals is amnesty.
And to say the NYTimes isn’t credible quoting Cruz is laughable.
The MSNBC article confirmed from the Cruz camp that this reporting from the Texas Tribune was accurate:
“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. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
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, 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.”
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/09/13/immigration-cruz-aims-middle-ground/
You Texans may have surrendered to the onslaught, but the rest of us haven’t.
We also shouldn’t confuse legal immigration with good immigration. Tens of millions of third world migrants are bad news, whether they go through legal channels or not.
Spoken like a true troll...
Anyone that uses the MSNBC, NYSlime, Washington ComPost as factual evidence is like quoting the Huff Post or Politico as gospel. (PS...Remember I live in TX and the TX Tribune isn’t reliable either). So please give it a rest or go back to DU...
Giving work permits on a restricted, limited, and TEMPORARY basis is NOT amnesty!! That is no different than our current guest-worker/VISA programs. These programs target a very small number of eligible people and would not be applied broadly.
Amnesty is awarding benefits, naturalization, citizenship, or an eventual path to benefits/naturalization/citizenship to illegals without cause. This is done across the board. None of which Cruz supports.
Apparently, Texas has NOT surrendered since we’re the ones leading the fight via Cruz and leading the fight with the anti-immigration lawsuits!
Please let me know what your State has done or politicians have done.
I fully agree with you! Most of those third world countries that Obama is allowing to come into the U.S. (Somalia, Libya, etc.) should never have been taken off of the ban list. Hopefully, a conservative can add them back to the ban list eventually.
Letting people who should be deported stay and get work permits is amnesty.
But it must be easy to stew in your own ideas and misconceptions if you won’t take any MSM’s quotes of Cruz’s positions as legitimate.
And sadly, my state has followed Texas’s lead—with instate tuition for illegals.
dont need a deep breath thanks
walker has flipflopped all over this. walker supports amnesty no matter what his “stated position” is.
your comment didnt include your disbelief.
i was respectfully engaging you on something that needed it.
Did you actually read his quotes????
Not a single one stated that he supported amnesty even though they were taken out of context and not presented within the full context of his speech/interview/writings. Even your selected quotes only state that Cruz’s amendments didn’t completely gut the basis of the bill, which he probably couldn’t do anyways. Yet his amendments attempted to derail the bill. Either way, he didn’t vote for it so his failure to gut the bill is mute.
Try reading a little more about Cruz from some reputable sources or try reading some of his policy papers before you make false assumptions. I trust that much more than the MSM. He is on record stating that he does NOT support naturalization, benefits, or citizenship for illegals.
Also, having illegals self-deport and reapply for work permits is not amnesty. Not a single article you provided said how the Cruz worker permit program would work. In fact, your own articles states that Cruz said nothing would be done until the border is secure, which he has previously stated, includes removing the illegals first. If you read his policy papers then you’ll find that Cruz supports them applying AFTER and only AFTER they have complied with the current law. That is NOT amnesty!!
Cruz’s stance is the most conservative and consistent of all the potential candidates so far.
You still haven’t told me what your State or preferred candidate has done to support anti-immigration.
please read these comments. SMH
At least, you are extremely obvious.
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