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Ted Cruz Evades Important Question: Would You Deport U.S. Citizens?
Reason.com ^ | August 26,2015 | Matt Welch

Posted on 08/26/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: Menehune56
If their parents chose not to take their little anchor baby with them back to their home country, that’s their problem.

Exactly, where they live has no baring on the status of their US citizenship. There is no residency requirement for a citizen born in the US.

Once they reach the age of 23 they can then petition to have their parents immigrate lawfully as immediate relatives (IR-1).

That is what this anchor baby thing is really about.

41 posted on 08/26/2015 11:09:16 AM PDT by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: smokingfrog
Cruz wants to legalize the illegal aliens. Cruz Tries to Claim the Middle Ground on Immigration

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.

Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.

42 posted on 08/26/2015 11:11:08 AM PDT by kabar
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To: brothers4thID

Yes! This! Unlike Dear Leader who used EO’s......


44 posted on 08/26/2015 11:17:18 AM PDT by MomMcGraff
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To: Hojczyk

You can’t deport US citizens. What an idiotic question.


45 posted on 08/26/2015 11:21:01 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Hojczyk
The number one question I want Cruz to answer is "Will he work with Congress to build a wall on both borders and man it 24/7 with armed border guards and/or military?" Not a fence or worse a virtual fence but a wall much akin to the wall the Jews are building in Israel.

This the only logical plan to fix the open borders problem.

46 posted on 08/26/2015 11:21:26 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Menehune56

As soon as these little anchor babies turn 18 throw the parents out


47 posted on 08/26/2015 11:27:36 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Hojczyk

Silly question. No one can deport an American citizen.

If you deport the parents, then obviously the kids will go with their parents, thats only logical. But that isn’t a deportation, its what families do. Nobody is going to abandon their kids in a foreign country when they return home, at least no one with any decency.

Now, when the kids are of age and want to go back to the US, thats their business.


48 posted on 08/26/2015 11:28:36 AM PDT by marron
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To: marron
Now, when the kids are of age and want to go back to the US, thats their business.

Hmmmm, that is true. But if Congress were to revoke that erroneously granted citizenship, it would be a different story, would it not...?

Another way to address it would be a Convention.

They can do it retroactive, or not....

My preference would vary with enactment of a total suspension of all immigration for a period of years, (at least one generation)

49 posted on 08/26/2015 11:35:03 AM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: usurper
Once they reach the age of 23 they can then petition to have their parents immigrate lawfully as immediate relatives (IR-1). That is what this anchor baby thing is really about.

That's where the numbers (and the welfare benefits cost) pile up.

Howse about these questions for Boosh and Rubberio: Sir, would you be against deporting violent felons who happen to be the parent of an anchor baby or is "family reunification" more important?

Would you be against a 14th Amendment-compatible policy (under present day's tortured reading) of denying pregnant women visitors visas in order to prevent anchor baby skulduggery?

Maybe Ms. Me-Gyn can get to work on these.

50 posted on 08/26/2015 11:43:24 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Hojczyk

Ted has no obligation to answer loaded questions.

Just as with “life of the mother” or “rape and incest” when it comes to abortion, these are bogus excuses to justify the unbridled practice.

If you Build the Wall, control entry, use E-Verify, and actively return those entering illegally, Deport the criminals, stop taxpayer funded benefits, then the incentives stop, and large numbers self-deport.

This all will take time, but after 3 or 4 years there will be millions fewer to consider for deportation.


51 posted on 08/26/2015 11:44:23 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: FirstFlaBn
Would you be against a 14th Amendment-compatible policy

Therein lies the real problem and it's going to be a continuous one until there is a major change of opinion in the republican ranks.

I generally listen to radio shows chock full of the republican analysts and taking heads..They appear to be 100% in agreement that the 14th amendment says that citizenship is a birthright in this country.

In my view they are 100% wrong, but they are unapologetic about it and think anyone with a contrarian view is a idiot.

52 posted on 08/26/2015 11:52:11 AM PDT by Cold Heat (For Rent....call 1-555-tagline)
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To: Hojczyk

Man, you guys are a bunch of concern trolls. Why do we never see your breathless reports on Jeb Bush’s insane statements? Maybe that’s because you have a bone to pick for no reason.

And just who is your glorious candidate who is on cue 100% of the time? I thought so.


53 posted on 08/26/2015 11:54:48 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Hojczyk

A deliberately sloppy way to ask the question. The real question is: Would you deport the illegal parents of anchor baby children?

Answer: Yes, and I assume the parents would want to keep their families together and would taken their minor, citizen children with them.


54 posted on 08/26/2015 12:03:22 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Hojczyk

His answer makes sense, really. He knows that Constitutionally a president is NOT allowed to “make laws” himself. Yes, I know that Obama has over-ridden than effectively, but let’s be honest...do we want to keep on letting presidents make laws by fiat? By memos to this staff or another department? He cannot do what is NOT ALLOWED by the Constitution. Will he try to get certain things done? Yes, but he is wise not to promise those things because Congress is OFTEN unwilling to go along with republican presidents. We are letting the media take out our best candidates on silly stuff? Good grief! Even if Ted Cruz wins, do we really want him to rule like a dictator?

We are supposed to be Constitution-loving people here at Freerepublic.com. Let’s not forget the real issue here. Cruz cannot just do certain things, undoing laws that Congress passed, for one. He can over-ride EOs, but that is all. Laws have to be legally over-ridden by Congress.

The media are out for a story. They will make anybody look bad for the ratings. I am SOOOOOOOO glad I don’t have a TV. I’d have probably ruined it by now.


55 posted on 08/26/2015 12:06:36 PM PDT by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shery

Well put.


56 posted on 08/26/2015 12:20:26 PM PDT by brothers4thID (Be professional, be courteous, and have a plan to kill everyone in the room.)
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To: kingu

It is NOT plain text reading. The 14th does not allow babies of visitors to become US citizens. To believe so IS bastardizing the clear intent.


57 posted on 08/26/2015 12:29:34 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Even when I cannot see him I can feel it in my bones That he's still there. Trespasser by Al Stewart)
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To: Hojczyk; All

This is a trap BS question.

It is a direct kin to “how often do you beat your dog.”

CUSTODY FOLLOWS THE PARENTS.

The minor is in the custody of the parents. CITIZENSHIP DOES NOT MATTER. The child goes with the parents. The parents are deported and the children go with them. US citizen or not us citizen.

Custody does NOT follow the parents.


58 posted on 08/26/2015 12:37:38 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: vbmoneyspender

On O’Reily Monday night. O’Reily asked Trump the same question Megan Kelly asked Cruz. Trump’s answer was that he would deport the family but that many of the families were wonderful people and that he would expedite their return. To Trump’s credit he did answer the question.


59 posted on 08/26/2015 12:56:10 PM PDT by glabbe
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To: usurper

>> Once they reach the age of 23 they can then petition to have their parents immigrate lawfully as immediate relatives <<

And THAT provision, my FRiend, can be changed directly, easily and unambiguously by simple statute. Congress passes and POTUS signs. Period.

In other words, main problem could be solved without all the current hysterical and pointless discussion about the constitutionality of birthright citizenship.


60 posted on 08/26/2015 1:16:17 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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