Posted on 04/24/2015 4:12:26 PM PDT by VinL
Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday took a shot at rival presidential contender Scott Walker for comments the Wisconsin governor has made regarding immigration policy.
Cruz opposes comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for the estimated 11-12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. But the Texan is a big proponent of legal immigration and making adjustments to U.S. law that would facilitate more legal immigration. He criticized Walker for suggesting that he supported limiting legal immigration if it has a negative impact on the wages of American workers.
"There is considerable bipartisan agreement outside of Washington that we need to improve and streamline legal immigration so that we can remain a nation that welcomes and celebrates legal immigrants," Cruz said in an interview with the Washington Examiner during a brief campaign swing through Las Vegas.after cost estimates came in higher than anticipated.
I think it is a mistake for any politician to on the one hand embrace amnesty, embrace a pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and on the other hand seek to restrict or punish legal immigrants," Cruz continued. "I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba. [President Ronald] Reagan referred to legal immigrants as Americans by choice and there is no stronger advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am."
"I think the right approach is to secure the border, follow the rule of law and embrace and improve legal immigration," Cruz said.
Walker has conceded a change of heart on immigration policy as he gears up to launch a 2016 presidential bid. The governor, 47, previously supported a pathway to legal status for illegal immigrants. Now he is opposed. Supporting a pathway to legalization or citizenship could be problematic for a Republican candidate seeking his party's White House nomination.
But in a recent interview with conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, Walker appeared to move farther to the right on immigration than even amnesty hawks like Cruz. Here's what Walker said, as reported by Breitbart. (read more)
“But legal immigration? Yes.”
How many? We take about 1.2 million a year now. Cruz says he wants to nearly double that. If Cruz thinks it’s a good thing to double it, wouldn’t it be even better to quadruple it?
We’ve recently taken in more legal immigrants than the rest of the world put together. What do we have to show for it other than more crowded roads, prisons, and schools? And welfare/social security/medicare/Medicaid systems already teetering on bankruptcy?
The great majority of the increase in our population is fueled by immigration. We’re over 300 million people now. At what point can we shut the immigration spigot down—500 million? One billion? Will we be a better country then?
Not being sure of your age, I have no idea if you recall the once-Golden State of the 50s and 60s. In any case, when did you start noticing the changes for the worse? Was it gradual (like the frog being slowly boiled in water) or was there a time period you can point to when the influx began?
“We’re now paying the price of what the ‘RATs did in 1965.”
Exactly right.
Go to Brooklyn or Austin or Portland Or Frisco or Madison or Ithica and tell me again what a great value those ‘white Americans are to America.
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The rise of globalization, importations of legal and illegal immigrants has corresponded with the great stagnation the US.
What part of their liberalism has been promoted here? I’ll tell you what part—about as much as their two inches of cortex could accomplish.
Meanwhile they answer to sociopaths who, though they might have some amount of brainpower, are ultimately defeated by the most potent weapon anyone could ever use against themselves—narcissism.
What about the Bobby Jindal’s in this world who are conservative ?
What some are really against if they are honest is that they don’t like the skin color, or eniticty , race of certain immigrants that come here...
I would vote for Bobby Jindal in a heart beat if he became the GOP nominee..
I have seen people from India come here through legal immigration and become one of the most productive citizens of American society, or is it ? That some here only want a all white society ?
So as long as the immigrants come here legally, assimilate, love America, are productive citizens, conservative, I have no problem who they are...
What part?
Do a search on Lesser evil, PDS and Romney.
Tell me what you discover.
Rest assured, if Cruz stands at the podium and calls for a 10-year moratorium on all legal immigration, he’ll get my vote. It will prove he understands what we’ve gotten ourselves into.
I have long understood what these reckless chaotic immigration policies have done. I’ve unfortunately seen it first hand, close up.
Regardless of legal status, no one will ever convince me America needs even more people at this point in our history.
It is a question that I have not gotten one to answer yet.
Quality of life never enters into these discussions as we flood ourselves with endless millions of exotic foreigners from all over the globe.
Mass immigration without end, forever, the endless humanity pushers never give a number for when enough will be enough.
Personally, I thought that America was fantastic when it was at about 200 million.
“I’m sorry, but Ted Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Act must be repealed, and legal immigration must be capped at no more than 1000,000 a year.”
Kennedy’s anti-European immigration bill should be repealed, the numbers of legal immigrants should be capped at no more than 50,000 a year (at that number we’d still be creating the equivalent of a moderate sized city every year), and there should be a high standard on WHO is allowed in—important scientists, inventors, etc. We don’t need millions more cab drivers.
Go to Detroit, San Antonio, Camden, Newark, East St. Louis, El Paso or Oakland and tell me what a great value those non-white Americans are to America.
The big ramp up started becoming pretty obvious about circa 1975 and never subsided and only escalated.
Are they our native born garbage or imported garbage? I’ll bet mostly native born. Garbage is garbage regardless of color or national origin. I’ll take imported good over native liberal crap any day of the week.
I agree with both of you.
I think we have enough people here and too many things that were formerly nice are way too crowded. The taxes never go towards things like road and bridge-building anyway, so the infrastructure continues to rot.
However, if we must continue accepting the entire, uneducated, fake-refugee third world, I’m not sure what is wrong with the quotas we had between whatever year and 1965.
My parents and grandparents — all highly educated, with jobs, careers, sponsors, speaking English, disease-free, never dreamed of robbing the taxpayers, etc. — all waited many, many years to be admitted to this country. FDR had given theirs away so they had no place to go except Siberia.
Back then, it was 500,000 a year, period, end of story. Women and children came first.
After 1965, the prejudice against Europeans, against Christians, against the hardworking taxpayers and non welfare-leeches, began in earnest.
LOL, seriously, now you want to name individuals and ask me if I “like” them, and after attacking Ameericans as “lazy”, you are attacking us as racist?
We are smothering ourselves with an endless ocean of million, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of immigrants decade after decade with no end, and you want to name individuals, like my ex fiance, or a Louisiana politician, or my friends, and ask me if I “like” them because I want to end mass immigration?
Answer this question.
When will you agree to end mass immigration, at 500 million, 800 million, 1.2 billion, why not now, at 330 million, 130 million more than what we had when we went to the moon, and a quarter century after winning WWII?
I’m asking you to explain how liberalism is promoted here. If you’re having trouble finding confidence in your answer, don’t try to escape by demanding a search. Just go for it.
Oh I dunno. How about this thread where liberal GOP backers are in a tizzy to get their proven liar into the White House at the expense pf a solid and unflipping conservative? If you fail to see that, without going into the syudd I told you earlier (and have no intention in reposting what we all lived through for 6 years) then I don’t know what to tell you. Willful blindness isn’t a desirable debate tactic.
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