Posted on 04/30/2015 10:18:52 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
May 23, 2013 In 2000, Ted Cruz was known as a Texas-raised, Harvard-trained domestic policy adviser to the George W. Bush campaign. Bush was a two-term governor from a border state who was determined to fix what he saw as a broken, inhumane immigration system.
Cruz helped craft the campaign’s immigration policy, which called for speeding up the application process, increasing the number of work visas, and allowing the relatives of permanent residents to visit the U.S. while their applicants were pending. “Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande,” Bush used to say.
Bush, a self-described “compassionate conservative,” went on to win the presidency and champion a law that would have allowed millions of illegal immigrants to earn citizenship. Cruz went on to win election to the Senate from Texas as a hero of the tea party movement and emerge as a sharp critic of a pathway to citizenship in the latest attempt at immigration reform on Capitol Hill.
The route Cruz chose, from working on the reform-minded Bush campaign to voting against the bill Wednesday as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, confounds some of those who crossed paths with him. His role on the Bush campaign is a lesser-known part of the biography of a politician increasingly viewed as a potential presidential contender in 2016.
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Give me your fax number and I’ll send you a crying towel.
It wasn’t Cruz’s plan, it was Bush’s plan that Cruz, who was employed by Bush at the time, helped formulate. And there was still no mention of pathetic to citizenship for those here illegally.
The GOPe wants amnesty and have made it clear in various GOP leadership/policy fora. We had a "one time" amnesty in 1986, never to happen again according to the supporters. The USG estimated 1 million would apply, but the true number turned out to be 2.7 million. The process was rife with fraud.
Now we are told there are just 11 million lawbreakers who should be legalized. We will see how many actually apply. In addition to fraud, the administrative logistics are staggering. And deportations will essentially be suspended while this all takes place. When you reward something, you get more of it.
How ironic that that is your fax number, huh?
” Nothing in this article, or the facts themselves, can be used to cover for the dramatic shift (Flip-flopping) by Walker. “
I just call him “Waffle Man”
A cold, stale waffle, at that.
Yeah
It also provides a line in the sand for those who cannot qualify for a work permit (due to criminal background, etc.) or violate the terms of the permit (breaking the law, etc.) to be deported.
Pathetic hit piece. /spit
Which is ironic considering that it’s okay for admission of a stream of immigrants, but not okay to have biological children, for the sake of population control. Plus why should California admit tons of immigrants when it also admits that it is running out of water?
An immigration policy with rules that control how and who can come would contrast sharply with the chaos and “Ya all come!” Lack of rules Obama is forcing on us.
I see plenty of problems with your position. Any legislation that allows the lawbreakers to stay and work here legally is amnesty. Citizenship is just the cherry on top. You are allowing the 11 to 20 million to now compete legally against US workers. The native born are being screwed by immigration, legal and illegal, now. They are losing jobs and their wages are being depressed. Since 2000 immigrants are taking the jobs with less native born working now than in 2000. We have a surplus of labor with the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years.
We are bringing in 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants annually and 640,000 guest workers on temporary work visas a year. At any one time there are 2 million legal guest workers in this country. Why legalize the lawbreakers?
It also provides a line in the sand for those who cannot qualify for a work permit (due to criminal background, etc.) or violate the terms of the permit (breaking the law, etc.) to be deported.
That line in the sand already exists. It is illegal for illegal aliens to work in this country and it is illegal for employers to hire them. We are not deporting them now so what makes you think we will deport them once the lawbreakers are legalized?
When you reward something, you get more of it. The benefits of hiring illegals will not diminish. They are cheaper and employment laws and regulations are ignored, including the minimum wage. We will just provide an incentive for more lawbreakers to come here.
And anyone who thinks that the political issue of immigration and illegal aliens will go away if we legalize them is smoking something. The Dems will make them the issue if they are not given a path to citizenship. And they will probably get support from the courts.
The costs of legalization are $6.3 trillion. Their impact on Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, SS, food stamps, etc. will be significant. Why this urgency to legalize them?
California has no say as to where immigrants settle, but they certainly make it attractive for illegal aliens to go there.
We already have laws to control how and who can come. They are not being enforced. And we bring in far too many legal immigrants.
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