Posted on 12/20/2015 12:24:37 PM PST by justlittleoleme
The office of Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, sent out a press release Wednesday pushing five amendments he filed to the bill, which generally tightens enforcement and provides a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.
Cruz's amendments seek to further tighten border security, streamline the legal immigration process, deny public benefits to those here illegally, reform the high-skilled worker visa program and prohibit a path to citizenship for the undocumented.
"The amendments filed today to strengthen border security and reform our legal immigration system will not only bring meaningful, effective improvements to our immigration system, but also have a chance of becoming law," said Cruz in a statement. "America is a nation of immigrants, built by immigrants and we need to honor that heritage by fixing our broken immigration system, while upholding the rule of law and championing legal immigration."
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Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, said the Republicans' amendments did not bode well for bipartisan cooperation on the bill.
"The amendments are the latest evidence of what immigration reform opponents are up to - they want to slow-walk the bill in hopes of derailing it and to inject poison pill provisions," Sharry said. "This is clear from the number and types of amendments offered. Nevertheless, we are optimistic the bill's core elements will be protected by pro-reform Democrats and Republicans.:
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, has sent daily emails about the importance of passing an immigration reform bill. In an apparent reference to some of his conservative colleagues who oppose the path to legal status - a pillar of the measure - Rubio has said that some people will remain against any attempt at immigration reform.
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017387/posts
People knew then it was a poison pill. Cruz was right.
Reported on Fox News in 2013.
...Cruz’s amendments seek to further tighten border security, streamline the legal immigration process, deny public benefits to those here illegally, reform the high-skilled worker visa program and prohibit a path to citizenship for the undocumented....
...Supporters of the bill, mainly of the part of it that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, kept a steady drumbeat in defense of the measure through emails, websites and social media.
In a press release, America’s Voice, a leading national group that advocates for more lenient immigration laws, singled out Cruz’s anti-citizenship amendment as particularly worrisome.
“This would not only destroy the path to citizenship in the Senate bill—the popular heart of an immigration reform solution—but also turn its back on 100 years of precedent in immigration policy,” said the release....
...Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, has sent daily emails about the importance of passing an immigration reform bill. In an apparent reference to some of his conservative colleagues who oppose the path to legal status - a pillar of the measure - Rubio has said that some people will remain against any attempt at immigration reform...
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But some folk here continue to try to distort and mischaracterize history on this. They are either unwittingly, or wittingly, performing service to the interests of the RINO GOPe.
Good job!!!!
Unfortunately the Trumpophiles are either honestly too thick to read the between the lines or are just being willfully ignorant when analyzing Cruz’s actions and motives.
Of course but don’t expect the “liar fraud” charges & sleazy Alinsky tactics to stop flying.
Somebody forward this to Marco and FNC.
That makes him exactly the opposite of the reasons he gave for electing him.
Cruz is a lying fraud and now is a fully entrenched RINO/liberal in the club he pretends to hate, "The Washington Cartel".
You Cruz clowns cheer this fraud. I wonder if you'll cheer when he, or the democrats pull the same trickery on a bill you support...It will happen. Guaranteed
Yes. Guaranteed.
I prefer to think of it as a defensive shield rather then a poison pill. It kept dems from doing something dumb.
So.... he was lying but putting in an amendment to block illegal aliens from getting citizenship?
What would you preferred that he had done?
“Cruz’s amendments seek to further tighten border security, streamline the legal immigration process, deny public benefits to those here illegally, reform the high-skilled worker visa program and prohibit a path to citizenship for the undocumented.”
Do you love Rubio so much that you need bash Cruz?
Bump for the truth
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