Posted on 04/07/2019 12:13:59 PM PDT by Cubs Fan
WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – While he has expressed support for President Donald Trump’s plans for a border wall, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in a statement he is against closing the border to slow the flow of South American migrants and asylum seekers.
“Closing the border to legal commerce would be devastating to Texas. Millions of jobs, in Texas and across the country, depend upon trade with Mexico, and the federal government shouldn’t do anything to jeopardize those jobs,” Sen. Cruz said.
This is precisely why in 2015 I felt something really bad about Cruz and immediately jumped to Trump. Something told me he really wasn’t going to stand against illegals.
I too jumped off the Cruz ship in 2015 when he started making bizarre statements during the TPA debate.
Cruz disgraced himself in the recent Senate national emergency vote. He hid under his desk for a week unwilling to be a public Pro-Trump vote during the debate before finally voting against it. Then in typical career politician mode he came out with one of these CYA statements after the vote.
Seemingly, the junior Senator from Texas does nothing that is not poll tested. Hugely disappointing. I had high hopes for him but a leader he is not.
It may be that Mexico wants to discourage American living in the country as an inflationary factor they don’t want. My best guess.
Yep.
Closing the border wont stop the illegals coming over but it’ll screw the texas economy
Building the wall or finding other methods to stop the illegal immigration is needed but totally closing the border is a recipe for texas voting blue in 2020 and losing the election
Cross border imports/exports goes both ways.
Mexico’s exports to America amounted to
$349.6 billion or 13.4% of its overall imports.
1. Vehicles: $93.8 billion
2. Electronic equipment: $63.9 billion
3. Machinery: $63.8 billion
4. Mineral fuels including oil: $16.1 billion
5. Medical, technical equipment: $15.1 billion
6. Furniture, lighting, signs: $11.1 billion
7. Fruits, nuts: $7.3 billion
8. Vegetables: $6.7 billion
9. Plastics: $5.8 billion
10. Beverages: $5.7 billion
America’s exports to Mexico amounted to
$265 billion or 15.9% of its overall exports.
1. Machinery: $46.2 billion
2. Electronic equipment: $43.3 billion
3. Mineral fuels including oil: $34.1 billion
4. Vehicles: $22.2 billion
5. Plastics: $17.9 billion
6. Medical, technical equipment: $7.5 billion
7. Organic chemicals: $6.4 billion
8. Iron or steel products: $5.5 billion
9. Iron and steel: $4.6 billion
10. Aluminum: $4.4 billion
In California, the past two decades, illegal immigration has been increasing and more in your face every year.
Which why we have so many open sanctuary cities and more that are sanctuary cities and never admit it.
It has become a nightmare after the courts said that Prop 137 was illegal. As a state we could not control illegals.
However, we had to feed/house and provide Medical Care for free for the illegals flocking into California for those benefits and under the table pay for jobs.
In a few years, our wonderful road system started going to hell in a hand basket with no real money for maintenance of roads/bridges and other infrastructures.
Our tax money went to feed/house and provide Medical Care for free for the illegal invasion.
*** Shutting down the border will have one devastating effect: Heroin flow to the colossal market of addicts will be squeezed down to a trickle. I would take joy that the junkies in America all go cold turkey. That monkey has got to die. ***
Worked for a logistics outfit. A lot of things that go into American products come from Mexico. I don’t think any auto in the US is made w/o parts that come across at Laredo, TX. Also, needed parts for industrial equipment that go in everything from appliances to keeping the oil/gas boom going.
Trump knows this. I guess he thinks we do not.
A lot of things Mexico was getting from the US corn, wheat,soy will be imported from Argentina, Brazil, China.
so lets keep things regarding the border and illegal invaders and just Devastate the whole country instead :) /s
“We treat Mexican citizens the way they treat Americans when we go there”
baloney! How many Americans are fleeing south to mexico illegally and getting on mexico govt helps?
And people still don’t recognize that Cruz always talks out the side of his neck.
Not a word.
The inspected parts of the border should be open for essential commercial traffic. There, high tech equipment can catch shipments in Mexican produce and other trick methods the cartels will devise. These ports of entry will become a bottleneck for the bulk of drug smuggling. Besides the drug traffic by the border jumpers, there is the traffic of drugs by people in air, motor transport and walk-ins. These will be shut down, leaving the bulk of traffic to the bottleneck and, of course, the border jumpers. This, of course, will impact the tourist trade, which is a big bite on the Mexican economy. Mexico will not know what hit them.
As for the border jumpers, their options are closing down as more of the wall is being built. Then, there is high-tech surveillance technology which will catch them as they jump the border in areas without walls. It will be real interesting how effective the surveillance will be. The walls are closing in on the drug cartels.
Addicts in America, take a big grip, the monkey on your backs will be starved. There will soon be cold turkey in November.
So Ted would have had this exact same perspective if he had become president.
Folks, does this help you understand the “bullet” we dodged? He’s on the side of Hillary, the C of C, and NeverTrumpers, in regard to the border!
Yeah Ted Likes his avacados..... of realizing that when the farmers crops go bad, they lose money. And drug cartels own lots of avacados farms. Our poor $18 trillion dollar market isn’t even going to see a hit! Now I know why Cruz barely won re-election.
[Bank robbers say that vaults, locked doors and security guards are devastating to their economy.]
That’s very true.
That’s why we need the North American Free Bank Agreement.
This is why Sen. SoiBoi (no, not FoamBoi) almost got beat by Beta Rookie.
This is the Ted Cruz we thought had balls and would stop the border from leaking?
Most of us supported Cruz first.
But when Trump announced, many here switched, including myself.
None of us knew Trump would win. But we knew Trump would fight
back. Not roll over like the GOP before him.
And that alone was enough for me.
Hey, Ted - perhaps you should run for political office in Mexico, where you’d feel more at home ... a$$hole.
IIRC, President Trump already said he would keep the commercial lanes open
In fact, I know this for certain because the discussion here in San Diego was that the wait time for trucks at our border: Tijuana to San Diego would be 3 - 4 hours and this is the busiest land border in the world.
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