Posted on 11/19/2015 2:24:32 PM PST by Kaslin
It's official! Sen. Ted Cruz's immigration plan trumps Trump's!
I expected that the unveiling of his plan would take a back seat to the Islamic terrorist attack in Paris, France, and rightfully so. However, in lieu of the chaos, presidents will be forced to make many decisions during their tenure that will affect the safety and security of the American people. The Paris attack gave us a chance to see how our candidates would respond if an event like that occured during their administration. In a world with an ever increasing threat of an ISIS attack, immigration is no longer a matter of migration and sovereignty alone - it's a matter of national security.
I attended a rally for Sen. Ted Cruz last Friday. It was held at Faith Assembly of God, a local mega-church in Orlando, Florida. Sen. Cruz made a brief appearance in order to give a speech and shake hands with some of his supporters. He, along with all of the other GOP presidential candidates, was scheduled to speak at the Sunshine Summit across town. As an esteemed member of the press (yeah right), I was handed two sheets of paper prior to his arrival at the church from a member of his campaign team.
What I read made it clear that our federal government, particularly the White House, would no longer be in the business of importing terrorists or exporting American jobs under a Cruz administration.
Cruz's plan doesn't explicitly address the deportation of the estimated 11 million illegal foreigners residing within our nation's borders currently. Nonetheless, it's almost certain that self deportation would be the end result of his plan. Self deportation is a more viable option than Donald Trump's plan to corral illegal foreigners and throw them out, considering the divided and often feckless Congress in Washington, D.C.
Sen. Cruz wisely divided his plan into three categories. All of which are essential in restoring our immigration system, Judeo-Christian heritage, healthy job wages and national sovereignty. The plan entails how he would secure the border, restore the rule of law, and reform legal immigration to protect Americans. Within each category Sen. Cruz offered specific and in depth objectives to implement his plan, along with a "promise" to see it through. I've listed them all below in bold face lettering, along with my own brief commentary (not in bold face) as to why each is essential for a border plan going forward:
1.) Secure the border
A.) Build a wall that works. After passing legislation in 2006 to complete a 700 mile fence across our southern border and having it signed by then President George W. Bush, Congress managed to build a menial 36 miles worth of fence. Ted Cruz promised to "complete" the remaining 664 miles worth of concrete enforced fencing.
B. Triple the number of border patrol agents. The federal government is obligated to enforce our border laws. Having more man power will help in that effort and let the countries south of our border know we mean business.
C. Increase vital aerial surveillance and other technology along the border. Although I'm skeptical of the effectiveness of this particular aspect of securing our border security, Sen. Cruz argues that "eyes in the sky and other equipment are necessary to find and detain all illegal entrants."
D.) Finish the biometric tracking system at our nation's ports of entry. Approximately 60 percent of illegal foreigners that enter our country legally on temporary visa programs never leave. A tracking system is crucial to curtail that.
2.) Restore the rule of law.
A.) End President Obama's illegal amnesty. Sen. Cruz promises to rescind each of Obama's 20 executive orders that has fomented illegal immigration his first day in office. Having argued before the Supreme Court nine times, I tend to believe he knows what he's doing.
B.) Increase deportations and end catch-and-release. Deportations and returns have to be taken seriously. Ted Cruz has promised to rededicate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to "fully enforcing the law."
C.) End sanctuary policies. Sanctuary cities are a spit in the face to those who immigrated to our country legally. They undermine any incentive for illegal foreigners to assimilate. This must be stopped! Three hundred-forty jurisdictions in the U.S. refuse to enforce our immigration laws. Cruz has promised to sign "Kate's law, and deport criminal immigrants."
D.) Prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving financial benefits and strengthen E-Verify. People who broke our border laws don't deserve welfare from U.S. citizens. Additionally, American jobs should go to Americans. This policy will help accomplish that objective.
3.) Reform legal immigration to protect Americans.
A.) Suspend the issuance of all H-1B visas for 180 days to complete a comprehensive investigation and audit of pervasive allegations of abuse of the program. Ted Cruz also promised to "initiate an immediate 90-day investigation and audit" of the H-1B visa program to protect American jobs. I would like more details on this.
B.) Halt any increases in immigration so long as American unemployment remains unacceptably high. Until American workers are near full employment it makes no sense to saturate the low skilled labor market and drive down wages.
C.) Enforce the public-charge doctrine. I love this! If you come to this country it is incumbent upon you and no one else to take care of yourself! Let's restore the "American Dream" not the "Great society."
D.) End birthright citizenship. As a black American it is offensive how our 14th Amendment is being used to justify lawless acts by illegal foreigners when it was written to protect freedmen! Sen. Cruz promises to "take steps to pass legislation or a constitutional amendment to end it."
America is the only industrialized nation in the modern world with weak border policy. Other candidates are "campaigning" about what they'd do to secure the border, but knowing what we know about Sen. Cruz, he's just speaking truth.
LOL
Not running away - just done dealing with a political moron.
Them Teamster Union tolls must be getting paid mighty fine from Trump.
Can you explain why requiring proof of a (lying) assertion you made is “politically moronic?”
No...?
Forget it. We both know you painted yourself into a corner in a moment of stupidity. I’ll let you off the hook. Go hug your Trump poster.
Not a long time. Cruz has started working with Sessions after he saw the success that Trump had with the Session plan on immigration. They are now working together on the issue.
His illegal immigration plan has a multiple points said there is to be no path to citizenship ever.
A path to citizenship is just the cherry on top. Being allowed to stay and work here, i.e., amnesty, is the object of their crime. And frankly, if Cruz was ever to get legalization without a path to citizenship, the courts would overturn it and the Dems would have a huge issue to club the Reps over the head. And the costs of legalization would be $6.3 trillion if there are only 12 million.
So far as how many legal immigrants his plan will prevent from entering the US, I would say that it will prevent some. I believe I’ve read recently that over half of current legal immigrants access the welfare/social net system. One of Cruz’s amendments to the CIB required his H1B business visas to have something like a million dollars. I’d have to go read it again, but it was a poison pill amendment, so it was rejected.
Cruz is not a legal dummy. He knows what he’s doing. He has been consistently supporting H1B visas and he knows it, although he said it was based on research showing the H1B visas provided 2 or 3 jobs for each visa. I think he said recently he is relooking that.
Bogus study that is well-known to us in the immigration field. I won't go into it here, but the Chamber of Commerce has been pushing it for some time. It was disappointing to hear Cruz regurgitate it.
I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt....apparently, Trump is, too.
I welcome his conversion. It remains to be seen if Cruz can catch on with the average voter or attract Dem voters in the general election. Trump has proven more adept at that. Cruz is the smartest and most articulate candidate of any in the race, Rep or Dem, but that doesn't always translate into electoral success.
Ohhh let Cactus have their little Trump - O - Romma party..
It takes awhile for them to get over the hangover from drinking to much YUUGIE TRUMP KOOLAID.
Yeah, Cruz is really bugging them these days...
When Trump made his announcement speech I wrote down point by point the positions he took. He was saying exactly the same thing as Ted Cruz. I pointed that out here at FR. It puzzled me why Trump was running instead of supporting Cruz. The only things that Cruz supported that Donald left out were religious liberty and abolishing the IRS.
Inaccurate and pure propaganda for them to say Cruz never talked about building a wall.
It’s sort of like trowing enough crap against the wall in hopes their BS will stick.
These are Sessions/Cruz initiatives in 2014, before Trump even announced. IIRC, that announcement was about May/June, 2015:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/18/senate-gop-dreamers_n_5842602.html
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/12/12/ted-cruz-mike-lee-jeff-sessions-pushing-defund-amnesty-vote
Folks need to be reminded that without Ted Cruz taking the stand that he did, amnesty would already be the law of the land. Both Mark Levin and Rush have pointed that out in the last two weeks.
While drunk and mindless on YUUGIE TRUMP koolaid ?
My ohh my, that’s a laugh, ohhh the Irony... Your killing me, such a belly laugh.
It’s a tactic typical to liberals, too. When losing, attack, insult and then run. Sad to see FReepers adopt it.
Enjoy your Eddie Haskell of the Senate and then we’ll talk kool aid.
Trump speaks ad nauseum about his plan to deport and force the illegals to also self deport. You are trying to tie Ted Cruz to an immigration plan that he does not subscribe to.
Never has Cruz said “They have to go back. They have to go back and then can apply to return legally” Cruz does not talk about a deportation force. Cruz does not give an 18-24 month time frame for deporting the illegals.
Cruz is not going to deport anybody.
Cruz’s immigration plan is not the same as the Trump plan except in your mind.
The TRUMP - O - ROMMA YUUGIE KOOLAID is mighty potent tonight for the Trump Koolaid drinkers.
What you say ?
The proceeds from YUUGIE TRUMP high energy KOOLAID will be used to build special high end : TRUMP LUXURY SYRIAN RESORTS in Syria ?
And the cost of building them will be stuck with the tax payers ?
MY MAN TRUMP !
WAY TO GO “ DA DON “ .
I admire his boldness for chumping the tax payers with the SYRIAN REFUGEE TRUMP LUXURY RESORTS.
Those delux REFUGEE RESORTS will surely have Trump’s name on them.
My man Trump, making a buck , making mo money mo money mo money off of the American tax payer.
I admire his boldness.
EXCELLENT clip! Thank you!
I trust Trump to do what he says he will do. Cruz well not so much. I like Ted but he will not deport these people. He thinks they are all going to self deport. With Trump announcing his round up they will self deport in droves. The ones that don’t will be be rounded up. They have to go.
I need to remember it.
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Get with it, Aragon— we’re getting tired of carrying you!
Certainly level of competence required on the Cruz crew, ya know?
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