[Cincinatus' Wife]

Quoted in Red State:

http://www.redstate.com/diary/freedomrepublican/2015/01/10/on-immigration-cruz-and-paul-are-right-rubio-and-walker-are-wrong/

” 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.”

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Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.

Deceptive wording.

That is simply a crappy journalist inserting his own opinion by mentioning Romney's position.

Senator Cruz DID NOT state that.

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“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.

The sentence does not say that Cruz advocated for self-deportation. It says that Romney advocated for self-deportation.

Cruz's believes in legal immigration and/or legal status. So do I. No amnesty. No path to citizenship for any illegal alien. Period.

The exception is if they are NOT caught here, and they get in the back of the legal line with properly filed papers in their country of origin.

I, personally, would also make an exception for children of illegals brought here by their parents who know no other home. I would require them to seek legal immigration or return to their parent's country, but I would provide an adjustment to their time of application for legal citizenship. I would also require them to renounce any other citizenship.