In September,2012 Cruz expressly told the NY Times that he supported immigration reform (i.e. Amnesty) and he rejected any notion of self deportation.
I do not have the software to post this but it was documented in Adios America and you can access the link via that route.
Really? Because I have just posted links to where he advocated deporting DREAMers and told Romney to fight for deportation—also from 2012.
Yeah, someone posted that NY Times story, but I see no quotes directly from Cruz on the really relevant points. It amounts to taking an NYT reporter’s word for it that Cruz actually told him those things.
So I am not buying it, if that is the only source.
Immigration reform does not equate with amnesty, though many of the GOPe conflate the two. Immigration reform means fixing the things that are broken (immigration should be based on our needs, not on things like reuniting families, etc.) and improving the systems for enforcing the immigration laws (e-verify, biometrics, better tracking of expired visas, as well as a wall). Most of us support that kind of immigration reform. And relying on self-deportation as the primary method of removing illegals is inefficient. As we find illegals, they should be deported. This is what Cruz has consistently said.