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Kabar, I totally forgot to mention that Cruz’s amendment also stripped out the provisions for achieving citizenship in the gang’s amnesty bill. (essentially the amnesty part of it)

There was no way that the gang was going to support it, as well as their entire group, repubs and dems.

As I said, it was a ploy. It was part of the fight.

“...As I said, it was a ploy. It was part of the fight.”
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You have the patience of Job, much more than I can muster. I did a review of the posting history of the some of those on this anti-Cruz jihad and I want to change my characterization of them as being on “an anti-Cruz jihad”...they are instead on “a HYPERACTIVE anti-Cruz jihad”.

And the funny thing is that it escapes them that Trump likely views Cruz as a natural ally and behaves accordingly by not attacking Cruz. Trump is smarter than some of his supporters who are engaging in their hyperactive anti-Cruz jihad.

BS. Cruz supports legalization of the lawbreakers.

â€œThe amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,â€ 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.