https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/684116665160826880 Cruz-backing Rep. @SteveKingIA: "I just recently told [Trump], 'if you're the nominee, I'm all in, Donald.'"
Posted on 01/05/2016 2:44:16 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
July 18, 2012
"........ [Ted] Cruz, who is 41 and has never held elected office, staked out more extreme positions than the 66-year-old Dewhurst, a career politician who has presided over the Texas Senate as Lieutenant Governor since 2003.
"My touchstone for every question is the Constitution," Cruz said, adopting the refrain commonly heard from Tea Party supporters.
".....Cruz went on the offensive against Dewhurst on illegal immigration-a key issue in the state that shares the longest stretch of U.S.-Mexico border-calling attention to Dewhurst's 2007 support of a guest worker program for the state's undocumented immigrants, announced at a speech in South Texas.
Cruz called the guest worker idea more expansive than President Obama's decision to call off deportations for immigrants without criminal records who came here illegally as children-a policy that Cruz opposes and called "illegal."
Dewhurst, who has taken a more pragmatic approach to the issue of illegal immigration, avoided clarifying whether he currently supports such a program.
Cruz also distinguished himself from Dewhurst with his full-throated support for a border wall estimated by the Department of Homeland Security to cost $7.3 billion, or $6.5 million per mile.
Cruz defended the border wall proposal even if it meant expropriating private property-a position that the debate's moderators, WFAA reporter Brad Watson and Gromer Jeffers of the Dallas Morning News, said contrasted with Cruz's message of fiscal conservatism.
"One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders," Cruz said. "Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation."......
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
Trump Unleashed a Major Immigration Criticism on Ted Cruz - But Here's the Whole Story
.....On CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Trump called Cruz out:
"[T]he other day.... I was watching Ted talk, and he said, 'We will build a wall.' The first time I've ever heard him say it... I was strong on the border, and I'm the one who came up with it."
But Cruz has been adamant about a border wall since his Senate bid back in 2012, when he went so far as to push the idea, even if it meant taking private property away from landowners......."
So if Cruz is such a great supporter of a wall, why hasn’t he mentioned it once since 2012? Maybe he said it in 2012 to get elected?
Cruz...supports eminent domain!
https://twitter.com/kausmickey/status/684116665160826880 Cruz-backing Rep. @SteveKingIA: "I just recently told [Trump], 'if you're the nominee, I'm all in, Donald.'"
That’s not a wall, that’s little more than we have now.
Facts are stubborn things.
Because he has mentioned it since 2012.
But I thought no one, not anyone, knew or cared about the border until Clintons-supporting-and-funding-candidate-for-the-first-time Trump came along. How can it be that Cruz knew about this issue before Trump?
Donald Trump: Mean-Spirited GOP Won't Win Elections
".....Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. - The Republican Party will continue to lose presidential elections if it comes across as mean-spirited and unwelcoming toward people of color, Donald Trump tells Newsmax.
Whether intended or not, comments and policies of Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates during this election were seen by Hispanics and Asians as hostile to them, Trump says.
"Republicans didn't have anything going for them with respect to Latinos and with respect to Asians," the billionaire developer says.
"The Democrats didn't have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren't mean-spirited about it," Trump says. "They didn't know what the policy was, but what they were is they were kind."
Romney's solution of "self deportation" for illegal aliens made no sense and suggested that Republicans do not care about Hispanics in general, Trump says.
"He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal," Trump says. "It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote," Trump notes. "He lost the Asian vote. He lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country."
The GOP has to develop a comprehensive policy "to take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to immigration, with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country," Trump says........"
As I understand it Duncan Hunter’s San Diego border fence has been about as effective as any physical barrier can be. Granted it doesn’t carry the magical properties it would have if we called it a wall but its still effective at doing its job.
So much for the notion Cruz “borrowed” the border wall idea from Trump. Both men are right on this issue... but the idea Cruz didn’t back a stronger border before Trump is false.
EVERYONE SUPPORTS EMINENT DOMAIN TO SECURFE THE BORDER!!!
Trump supports it to build a parking garage for his real estate development.
It’s a mystery because Trump is the Father and Inventor of everything that is good, positive and helpful. No one has
an idea or goal that Trump didn’t think of first.
I am reminded of the three Kims of North Korea when I hear Trump’s fans speaking in glowing terms of him, or when I hear Trump talking (third person) about Trump’s greatness.
Once again Cruz is caught acting consistently.
Good find.
-—Cruz...supports eminent domain!-—
LOL. That didn’t take long.
Yes, for building a border wall, a highway... You know, what it’s supposed to be used for, not to seize someone’s property to build a casino for himself.
The idea that Trump came up with the idea of a border fence/wall is also false. FFS its been a topic since the Bush administration.
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