Posted on 01/05/2016 2:44:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Trump Unleashed a Major Immigration Criticism on Ted Cruz - But Here's the Whole Story
.....On CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Trump called Cruz out:
"[T]he other day.... I was watching Ted talk, and he said, 'We will build a wall.' The first time I've ever heard him say it... I was strong on the border, and I'm the one who came up with it."
But Cruz has been adamant about a border wall since his Senate bid back in 2012, when he went so far as to push the idea, even if it meant taking private property away from landowners......."
So if Cruz is such a great supporter of a wall, why hasn’t he mentioned it once since 2012? Maybe he said it in 2012 to get elected?
Cruz...supports eminent domain!
That’s not a wall, that’s little more than we have now.
Facts are stubborn things.
Because he has mentioned it since 2012.
But I thought no one, not anyone, knew or cared about the border until Clintons-supporting-and-funding-candidate-for-the-first-time Trump came along. How can it be that Cruz knew about this issue before Trump?
Donald Trump: Mean-Spirited GOP Won't Win Elections
".....Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. - The Republican Party will continue to lose presidential elections if it comes across as mean-spirited and unwelcoming toward people of color, Donald Trump tells Newsmax.
Whether intended or not, comments and policies of Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates during this election were seen by Hispanics and Asians as hostile to them, Trump says.
"Republicans didn't have anything going for them with respect to Latinos and with respect to Asians," the billionaire developer says.
"The Democrats didn't have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren't mean-spirited about it," Trump says. "They didn't know what the policy was, but what they were is they were kind."
Romney's solution of "self deportation" for illegal aliens made no sense and suggested that Republicans do not care about Hispanics in general, Trump says.
"He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal," Trump says. "It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote," Trump notes. "He lost the Asian vote. He lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country."
The GOP has to develop a comprehensive policy "to take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to immigration, with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country," Trump says........"
As I understand it Duncan Hunter’s San Diego border fence has been about as effective as any physical barrier can be. Granted it doesn’t carry the magical properties it would have if we called it a wall but its still effective at doing its job.
So much for the notion Cruz “borrowed” the border wall idea from Trump. Both men are right on this issue... but the idea Cruz didn’t back a stronger border before Trump is false.
EVERYONE SUPPORTS EMINENT DOMAIN TO SECURFE THE BORDER!!!
Trump supports it to build a parking garage for his real estate development.
It’s a mystery because Trump is the Father and Inventor of everything that is good, positive and helpful. No one has
an idea or goal that Trump didn’t think of first.
I am reminded of the three Kims of North Korea when I hear Trump’s fans speaking in glowing terms of him, or when I hear Trump talking (third person) about Trump’s greatness.
Once again Cruz is caught acting consistently.
Good find.
-—Cruz...supports eminent domain!-—
LOL. That didn’t take long.
Yes, for building a border wall, a highway... You know, what it’s supposed to be used for, not to seize someone’s property to build a casino for himself.
The idea that Trump came up with the idea of a border fence/wall is also false. FFS its been a topic since the Bush administration.
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