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Yes, Trump has sucked up all of the attention, leaving the others to scramble to catch up or say me-too. Even Cruz is playing this game. If Cruz and others cannot step up with more tha criticism or me-too, they should drop out. This includes Cruz who needs to get past his ‘I will share my view on illegal aliens in the U.S. Until after the border is secure’ nonsense. Give us a straight answer now or step aside. Besides, I want to hear him explain his call for increasing H1B by 500%. More correctly, I want to hear him renounce this in favor of American workers.

Here is Trump's real position on those here illegally:

Undocumented Workers Can Stay ... BUT ONLY IF THEY WORK HARD

Here are Senator Cruz's already stated positions on Border and Illegal Immigration issues from NumbersUSA:

1. Oppose Amnesty - OPPOSE offering the officially estimated 11 million people illegally in the U.S. long-term work permits and/or a path to citizenship (whether through a blanket amnesty or an "earned legalization" or other form)

2. Attrition through Enforcement - fund an Attrition Through Enforcement campaign to cause illegal aliens to self-repatriate back to their home countries over time

3. Mandate E-Verify - jobs held by illegal aliens be opened up for unemployed Americans and legal immigrants already here by requiring all businesses to use the Federal automated, rapid-response internet system (E-Verify) to screen out illegal foreign workers

4. Assist Local Police - federal government be required to cooperate with local officials and pick up all illegal aliens detained by local law enforcement

5. Defund Sanctuary Cities - reduce funding to state and local governments that adopt sanctuary policies and other rewards for illegal foreign workers and the companies that hire them

6. Fund Entry/Exit System - fully fund the completion of the entry/exit system at all borders and points of entry in which every person entering and leaving the U.S. is logged into a database which would notify law enforcement, businesses and others when a foreign tourist, student, worker or other fails to leave on-time? *(US-VISIT was approved by Congress in 1996 and has never been sufficiently funded and is largely incomplete.)

7. Border Security - fund and provide oversight for the full implementation of border security measures already signed into law

8. End Birthright Citizenship - move the U.S. in line with most other nations and stop the policy of giving automatic citizenship at birth to children when both parents are illegal aliens?

9. End Chain Migration - implement the bi-partisan, national Jordan Commission recommendation to limit family-based immigration to the nuclear family of spouse and minor children, thus eliminating the "chain migration" categories of extended family that are the key reason immigration has quadrupled since the 1960s

10. End Visa Lotteries - institute safeguards that will prevent importation of foreign workers any time they would threaten the jobs or depress the wages of American workers

11. Reduce Total Immigration - Until 1976, U.S. immigration tradition was an average of around 250,000 a year; since new legislation in 1990, it has averaged 1,000,000 a year. More than 38 million foreign workers and dependents now live in the U.S. At current rates, immigration will add more than 100 million additional people to the U.S. population by 2060. This government-forced rapid population expansion will require huge increases in energy, roads and other infrastructure and services.

Read the details. They and others give him a pass because he says he will answer later. Show me ANYWHERE where Cruz says in his own words that he will not give work permits or any form of legalization to illegal aliens. I keep watching closely and there is none. He offers non-answers. Anything short of deporting illegal aliens is amnesty and Cruz is working hard to avoid being tossed in with Bush, Rubio, and others. And about H1B, do you deny he says increase by 500% and has never clarified or renounced this anti-American, pro-Chamber of Commerce position?