Ted Cruz knocks Scott Walker on immigration

Washington Examiner ^ | 4/24/2015 | Drucker

[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)

[dragnet2]

It’s the Statue of Liberty not the Statue of Immigration.

America no longer exists in 1880. There are limits to everything and we’ve obviously reached it.

[Norm Lenhart]

Finny, you are seeing play out what I have long saifd. FR is majority liberal and now they are proving it. Again. They are adopting the old Dem anti immigrant position because their liberal hero terms out in a year and a half, they know the GOP will win and they want the most lib replacement possible under the circumstances to keep the trend moving left.

And no one stops it.

Anti immigrant sentiment and not one mod. No lightning. Nothing.

[ansel12]

You are single minded, you don’t care what immigration is doing to us, for some reason, you just want more immigration.

You don’t even have any real reasons for it, and you sure aren’t interested in learning about the problems caused by it.

You are one of those guys who ignores every direct answer posted to you, and you just move to something else.

[Finny]

Hey, Norm!!!!!! Good to see you!!!!

I hope all is good, otherwise than FR being majority liberal (I don't agree, by the way, but that's the fun of FR) ... GOOD TO SEE YOU! :^)

[Unmarked Package]

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137

Here is a 10 minute speech by Cruz in front of congress when he was trying to push his increase for H1B workers in the STEM (science) fields.

He gives LOTS of figures and studies regarding the lack of workers for those jobs (1.9 jobs for every 1 worker), number of immigrants that are owners/part owners of STEM companies ($4.2 trillion worth), keeping skilled college graduates here rather than sending them back, etc.

It produces economic growth.

Thanks for posting a link to that excellent resource article. It filled a big void in my understanding of Cruz's thoughts and reasoning on legal immigration and the supporting data behind his conclusions. I learned a bunch from the article and video. Great find!

[kabar]

I'm really curious how you think the Hispanic slice of the pie is going to diminish.

Hispanic a phony term created in the 1970s to give some whites affirmative action and minority business set asides. Over 50% of Hispanics self-identify as white. The fact that we have the Census Bureau counting non-Hispanic whites is Leftist hogwash that uses identity politics to divide and conquer.

The Virginia Department of Minority Business defines a minority individual as “an individual who is a citizen of the United States or a non-citizen who is in full compliance with United States immigration law and who satisfies one or more of the following definitions:”

1.“African American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Africa and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.

2. “Asian American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to Japan, China, Vietnam, Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Northern Mariana, the Philippines, a U.S. territory of the Pacific, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.

3. “Hispanic American” means a person having origins in any of the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, South or Central America, or the Caribbean Islands or other Spanish or Portuguese cultures and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.

How absurd is this? The first thing we can do is reduce legal immigration and go to a merit based system, which will reduce the numbers we import from Latin America every year.

Secondly, I would push to eliminate affirmative action and minority business set asides pointing out that 87% of the legal immigrants who enter each year are minorities who benefit from unfair preferences based on race and ethnicity despite not suffering any of the grievamces they are based on. It is ludicrous.

If we can have some breathing space for assimilation by reducing the numbers and eliminating benefits that reinforce group identity, it won't matter what the make up is ethnically. However, there is a problem with poverty and dependence upon Big Government that will keep them in the Dem camp. Immigrants and minorities use welfare programs to a greater extent than the native born.

Are you aware that:

n 2010, 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives and their children. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty.

The children of immigrants account for one-third of all children in poverty.

Among the top sending countries, poverty is highest for immigrants and their young children from Mexico (35 percent), Honduras (34 percent), and Guatemala (31 percent); and lowest for those from Germany (7 percent), India (6 percent), and the Philippines (6 percent).

[Norm Lenhart]

Im here temporarily. I just couldn’t stand the utter crap I have see lately so I broke my own exile for the day.

It is not worth the hassle of arguing with morons regularly. Just needed to get it out of my system.

[chris37]

Well maybe that is the fault of republicans for being democrats.

The GOP hasn’t given me any particular reason to support it, has it given you one?

What are we supposed to tell legal immigrants? You can only come in if you vote R? I can’t really see what difference it makes one way or the other, the Rs are just as destructive to America as the Ds are, if not more so.

But yeah, I still support legal immigration. Before I get all bent out of shape about legal immigration, I want illegal immigration stopped, halted, because I am damn sure already bent out of shape about that.

[SharpRightTurn]

“You walker-bots are all the same. Completely delusional and refuse to accept the truth. You all are only bullheaded about Walker-or-bust which is the norm for Bush/Paul/Walker-Bots all.”

MaMax (hope I didn’t get that backwards), I would appreciate your pulling a number of posts from my posting history to prove to the audience how I am a “walker-bot.”

Once you have offered proof of my “walker-botism”, I’ll be happy to respond.

[ansel12]

If you knew anything about America, you would know that our mission before this mass immigration turned us into a leftist anti-American nation, was to EXPORT our values and freedom and ideals and free enterprise out into the world.

Look at the world’s nations and how many of them we improved, and made better and more free.

Mass immigration by the democrats has now ended that national goal, today the immigrant voters have desires and wishes and goals to vote for, that don’t fit the vision of the native American population.

[chris37]

Dunno.

I am concerned with waves of illegal immigrants.

I am not going to pick or unpick my choice of presidential candidate over legal immigration.

You can if you want, I’m not going to. I’m not opposed to legal immigration so long as laws are followed and enforced.

[Norm Lenhart]

Yea that statue of liberty phrase was crap. Give us your poor/yearning to be free...All a lie. Right.

Of all the idiots on this site, you really hit the top 5 hard.

[dragnet2]

What’s so wrong with foreigners ?

It's not about their looks, or how nice or reliable they are. We do not need more people at this time in our history.

I know the airlines, developers and apartment builders etc, are against it, but a serious moratorium is desperately needed.

[ansel12]

At what number will we have imported enough of the world’s population?

You guys must have some limit to how full and crowded and grubby, and multicultural you want America to be? Will it be 500 million, 1000 million, 1500 million, 3,000 million what?

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the note.

I don’t have time to respond now, so I’ll have to do it later.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I do have some things to say. I’d like to formulate a better response later.

Take care.

[ansel12]

Yes, that saying the French wrote and put on their gift to us was stupid.

[DoughtyOne]

I will respond to this tomorrow evening.

Thank you for the response.

[Norm Lenhart]

I rest my case.

I’ve had my fill of idiocy for the day.

[kabar]

Walker might be good on some issues. But reckless chaotic immigration policies dramatically affects nearly all big issues.

Based on previous posts, did you mean Cruz?

[dragnet2]

That’s what it boils down to.

A very credible legitimate question. How many more?

20 million? 200 million?

Where does it end?