But for Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who represents a state with rapidly changing demographics, finding common ground will not be easy. Many of the bedrock Tea Party supporters who helped elect him are immigration hard-liners who object to even the slightest nod toward amnesty, a loaded word that generally means providing an avenue for legal residency to people who entered the United States illegally. Such conservatives tend to favor mass deportation, or “self-deportation,†for the millions of undocumented immigrants.
On the other hand, Hispanics in Texas are projected to eclipse the white population sometime in the next decade, and Cruz cannot afford to alienate large numbers of Latino voters with a strident anti-immigrant tone and a hard-line legislative approach. Major business interests also are supporting a path to citizenship.
What Cruz has tried to articulate in both word and deed is a middle ground. It got no support from Democrats in Washington, but it goes further than many on the far right want to go by offering leniency to undocumented immigrants here already: A path to legal status, but not to citizenship. A green card with no right to naturalization.
Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.
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.
Sept. 13, 2013
Middle ground is DC code for f*** you America. It's the con game they are very good at.
“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.”
Ouch.
That be amnesty then!
Your link’s from 2013. Trump was not for deportation in 2011 when O’Reilly asked him:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3366836/posts?page=51#170
If you’re going to accept whatever Trump says now even when it contradicts his past positions then you have to do the same for Cruz. Go by what he says now, not what he said in prior years.
Bottom line is Trump is not for booting out all the illegals permanently. He’s going to let the “good ones” back in in an expedited fashion. I guess you could call that fast track back their reward for coming here illegally.