1) as we’ve seen, with out current system there’s no distinguishing legalized non-citizen votes at the voting booth, and
2) once “legalized” they would be certain to be given citizenship: Cruz would get them the critical 90% there.
Those 20-30 million “legalized” would through chain migration become 60-90 million new, primarily leftist and welfare-using, low-skill voters.
So, for all his bluster and other constraints, Cruz’s policy would so swamp us with leftist voters that his other trumpeted constraints on additional legal or illegal immigration that the point would not really make a difference. The country would be lost.
Again, I’d at least have more respect for a pol with that position to be open about it.
Yet, with even that said, Cruz appears better than the current alternatives.
Sigh.
“1) as we’ve seen, with out current system there’s no distinguishing legalized non-citizen votes at the voting booth...”
I think you don’t understand how voters are qualified to vote. Not just anyone can show up to vote on election day. There is a voter list for that precinct at every polling place. If the person’s name is not on the list, that person cannot vote. If he/she demands to vote, they vote a “Provisional” ballot which is examined by the Early Voting Ballot Board the day after the election, and the ballot would be thrown out then.
I was the judge of our Early Voting Ballot Board for ten years, and we never approved any Provisional Ballot as they weren’t on that precinct’s voter list OR they voted in the wrong precinct (both of those situations would require voting a Provisional Ballot).
In Texas, no voter is approved to be on the voter list UNTIL the name is sent to the Texas Secretary of State, Elections division, to be approved or not as a legal citizen. A report is sent to the county officer responsible for the voter list, and only then is the voter put on the list if the state elections division reports that voter is a legal citizen.