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.
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.
And sadly, my state has followed Texas’s lead—with instate tuition for illegals.