[kristinn]

Thanks for the hit piece on Ann with zero context. What she finds objectionable about Cruz on illegal immigration is that he is for amnesty for illegals--giving them green cards but not citizenship. Cruz also wants to flood the country with legal immigrants, doubling the number of green cards awarded each year.

From September 2013:

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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.

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[TigersEye]

Thanks for posting that at #72. Apparently we are the only
five people here interested in the substance of her claim.

[Jane Long]

What she finds objectionable about Cruz on illegal immigration is that he is for amnesty for illegals--giving them green cards but not citizenship.

How is giving them green cards, without citizenship, amnesty?

I pretty much agree with most everything Sen Cruz said in your excerpt.

We need workers, let them have green cards, but don't make them dependent citizens....like they are NOW. Lift the numbers, per country, so we can fill quotas as needed, not by nationality...as an example.

[Finny]

No matter where one thinks Cruz is or isn't on immigration is beside the point.

Romney has a political career confirming a solidly functional role in the advancement of amoral and financial leftist tyranny. You can look it up. Regardless of what Cruz is or isn't, anybody who urges me to vote for Romney has so far misjudged me that it makes me wonder which of us is in the wrong party. Because one of us is.