Too little too late. Nice try "Me Too" Ted.
HOUSTON, Texas - The Cruz for President campaign today announced a new TV ad, "Invasion", highlighting the impact of illegal immigration on American jobs. The ad makes the point by showing men and women dressed in business clothes running across the border as Cruz describes how the immigration debate would take on a different tone if those illegally entering the country were taking the jobs of lawyers, bankers, or journalists.
Cruz notes that as President he will triple the border patrol, build a wall that works, and make securing the border a top priority. The ad will run statewide in New Hampshire beginning January 5. The ad may be viewed here.
Watch the ad: Invasion (Video)
“Invasion”
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CRUZ: I understand that when the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn’t often see it as an economic issue. But I can tell you, it is a very personal economic issue.
And I will say, the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were coming across the Rio Grande…
…Or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press. Then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation.
If I’m elected president, we will triple the Border Patrol. We will build a wall that works. We will secure the border.
I’m Ted Cruz and I approve this message.
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Build the fing wall! We don’t need more homeland folks who do nothing.
I like it.
funny stuff, I like the tactics.
Why would Ted come out with a build the wall ad almost a year after Trump thumped us with it ?
Granted ... it's a different theme (elites rather than pregnant girls and murderers/rapists) ...
still ....
Too little too late. Nice try "Me Too" Ted.
Now THAT is a five star ad, from concept to production with an implicit dig at Rubio. Perfect.
Morning joe said the add was creepy. I thought the add was clever and great.
But I’m still voting for Trump.
If the border crossers were likely to vote Republican, Obama would mine the border.
Good ad, has a sort of a Walking Dead feel, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Also got a kick of when they showed Rubio squirm driving home the fact that he’s weak on immigration.
That’s a stupid concept and completely unrelatable to the average voter. More evidence that Cruz can’t connect with the masses.
It’s a fantastic ad.
There is a reason elites like Jeb Bush and Nancy Pelosi want unrestrained illegal immigration — it’s to create a permanent underclass available to mow their lawns and clean their houses.
If the oversupply of cheap (nay, almost slave) labor dried up, they’d have to pay people fair wages and the people who have been pushed out of the workplace would find jobs.
The black community and working class whites (and legal Hispanics), in particular, are being crushed by illegals willing to work in sub-standard conditions and for marginal pay.
Yeah but those bankers weren’t really crossing the actual border.
It is assumable that when people see a video of bankers crossing the border in a commercial about securing our border...one will naturally assume that is a video of the southern border, and those are real bankers. It’s misleading and they did it on purpose.
How can we trust someone that is this DISHONEST in what they show in their ads? Huh!?
Ted misses the mark slightly, he should have shown doctors, media, bankers, software people getting off of 787 jet liners with their h-1b visas in their hands.
The message is muddled and down plays the domestic threat posed by illegals.
When Cruz ran for the US Senate in 2012, he told Texas voters he wanted to increase the number of LEGAL foreign work visas for Texas ranchers and farmers.
He also supported increasing the LEGAL immigration quotas from Mexico and China, in order to clear up the backlog of new immigrants trying to get into Texas and the USA from those countries.
Bottom Line - Cruz wants to stop illegal immigrants from taking USA jobs. Meanwhile, 12 million permanent LEGAL immigrants will enter the USA if Cruz is in the White House for eight years.
Ted - it’s time to tell us what you plan to do about LEGAL immigrants taking USA jobs away from homegrown Americans!
“Any man left on the Rio Grande, is the King of the World, as far as I know.”
There are some ads that will stay with you (like the Chinese guy gloating about owning America) and have the potential to be game changers.
This may be one of those.