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Ted Cruz: I’m the only candidate who has consistently opposed amnesty
Washington Times ^ | January 29, 2016 | David Sherfinski

Posted on 01/29/2016 8:52:53 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said after Thursday evening's GOP presidential debate that he's the only candidate in the 2016 presidential race who has consistently opposed "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.

"In the Republican field, I am the only person on that stage, the only Republican running, who opposes amnesty, who opposes a pathway to citizenship," Mr. Cruz said on Fox News' "The Kelly File." "Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — all three of them support a pathway to citizenship."...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; cruz2016; foxgooglegopdebate; megynkelly; trump
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1 posted on 01/29/2016 8:52:53 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Except in 2013 when he supported it.


2 posted on 01/29/2016 8:54:00 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trumpbots Vs. Cruznadians - the struggle is real.)
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3 posted on 01/29/2016 8:55:34 AM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Not true.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 8:55:42 AM PST by skeeter
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Ha!

The Iceman Cometh! Let the truth be told!


5 posted on 01/29/2016 8:56:15 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I guess that depends on what the meaning of Amnesty is. Aren’t you tired of lawyer/political speak and squabbling over what the definition of “is” is?


6 posted on 01/29/2016 8:57:20 AM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

He’s using his definition of amnesty. If the government allows them to stay, but denies them citizenship, it isn’t amnesty.


7 posted on 01/29/2016 8:57:28 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: skeeter; The Iceman Cometh

He knows that, but didn’t you know that being obtuse is a requirement for being a Trumpophile.


8 posted on 01/29/2016 8:57:37 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Red Steel

That will leave a mark RS


9 posted on 01/29/2016 8:58:19 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Are you talking about his poison pill? The whole point was to kill it.


10 posted on 01/29/2016 8:58:20 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Apparently there's a difference between opposing amnesty and welcoming illegals with teddy bears. Sort of like the definition of "is".

11 posted on 01/29/2016 8:58:59 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Red Steel

Except for that flub with Wallace, I thought Ted Cruz had a good night. And btw, that newspaper would have read the same way even if Cruz had an absolutely flawless performance.


12 posted on 01/29/2016 8:59:21 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Except when he was for it.

And was silent about it in the beginning of the campaign, saying condescendingly that ‘The American people don’t want to have that conversation.”

A consistent Conservative wouldn’t have to avoid the subject, only talking about it after Trump made it a topic.


13 posted on 01/29/2016 8:59:27 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: traderrob6
He knows that, but didn’t you know that being obtuse is a requirement for being a Trumpophile.

Didn't you know that your little names for Trump supporters says more about who you are then it does them. And it is not a plus for you.
14 posted on 01/29/2016 9:00:13 AM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - losers are not winners)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Sept 2013--Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration

What Mr. 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. Mr. 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.

"The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight," he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.

Mr. Cruz said recent polling indicated that people outside Washington support some reform, including legal status without citizenship. He said he was against naturalization because it rewarded lawbreakers and was unfair to legal immigrants. It also perpetuates illegal crossings, he added.

Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.

It depends on what the meaning of amnesty is for Cruz. Legalization is amnesty.

Dec 2015--Reporter asks Ted Cruz four times: "How do you define amnesty?"

15 posted on 01/29/2016 9:00:46 AM PST by kabar
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Nope, of Megan Kelly admits (after trying to do him in the debate, of course) that Ted has a consistent record of opposing amnesty.


16 posted on 01/29/2016 9:00:59 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
Ted Cruz: I'm the only candidate who has consistently opposed amnesty

Actually, that would be Rick Santorum, not that it's any of my business :-)
17 posted on 01/29/2016 9:01:40 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

BS! Cruz just wants to redefine what an illegal alien is and what amnesty is.

Cruz wants to give them all legal status to remain here.

Cruz: “...once we’ve demonstrated that we can [secure the border], then we can have a conversation about what to do about whatever people remain illegally,” Cruz added. When asked if that conversation included the potential for a pathway to legal status, he repeated, “We can have that conversation with the American people once we secure the border.”


18 posted on 01/29/2016 9:02:15 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: The Iceman Cometh
Except in 2013 when he supported it.

Anyone paying attention when all of this was going on (like I thought we were on FR?!) should remember that Ted Cruz was the lone voice of sanity we were all thankful for then. We understood what he was doing and praised him for his brilliant tactics. Now we have FReepers against him. That only means you have left him... he has not left you.

19 posted on 01/29/2016 9:02:34 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Cboldt

Anyone with a brain knows that there is no way to allow them to stay and not give the voting rights.


20 posted on 01/29/2016 9:03:14 AM PST by dforest
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