Ted Cruz was calling for a border wall in 2011 when Trump still supported amnesty. Cruz has an excellent immigration plan that does not include expedited re entry after deportation. If you read the law enforcement section of his plan it is evident he does plan to implement deportation.
Trump, however, is viewing this on a scope closer to a war than the nice neat “law enforcement” of Cruz. Can Cruz stoke up the fire in his belly to that point? Trump, being told that all these cases have to be due-processed, would either do an Andrew Jackson, or else say fine, let’s open up 1000 courts then.
Ted is not calling for a wall now.
He says he will secure the border. So did John McCain. So did George Bush.
What they also said is that once the border was secured, they would talk about granting work visas and “legal status”.
That seems to be where Cruz is headed. It’s not something I support.