Immigration is not Cruz’s “weakness”, it is a strong point for him.
“”On Tuesday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reportedly met with 10 GOP House members in his office to strategize how to combat the push for amnesty in the coming months.””
“”Sen. Ted Cruz is dead set against any path to legalization for undocumented immigrants, unless it sends them on a detour back to their native countries, he told talk show host Sean Hannity in an interview on Monday.
The Texas Republican, a Tea Party conservative, said that including a path to citizenship for the undocumented in any immigration reform measure “is profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who have followed the rules, who have waited in line.”
Cruz’s tough stance on legalization puts him at odds with his fellow Cuban-American lawmaker and Tea Party conservative, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who supports a path to legalization.””
Who cares if illegals need to go make a visit to family back home before legalization? That’s an old GOPe trick to try to slip amnesty in at various points in the last decade.
And the GOP push in Congress against amnesty in the coming months is simply a push to stop Obama for getting all the credit for it.
Cruz’s pro-’legalization’ (pro-amnesty) position is the weakness in his otherwise solid platform, but it is stronger than the other prospective candidates in the race.