Nope, he came to that on his own. [...] Trump has never cast a single vote in either House excepting of course the ones he bought.
'Donald Trump is now the super-hawk on immigration. It wasn't always so, and not so long ago. A Newsmax article from November 2012 on his views on what went wrong in the election is making the rounds. Back then, Trump's view on immigration was utterly conventional – he wanted a "comprehensive solution" to accommodate immigrants who want to be "wonderful productive citizens," and thought Romney's policy of attrition (infamously described as self-deportation) was "maniacal" and mean-spirited' - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3309919/posts
None of the candidates have previously demonstrated a tough immigration during their careers and Cruz might have been more believable if he had come out swinging, but he didn't. Many of us here begged them to figure out why Trump was so popular but they didn't.