Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won’t

BuzzFeed ^ | 1/5/16 | S/Kacynski

[VinL]

Ted Cruz said during an appearance in Iowa on Monday that there’s a difference between him and Donald Trump on immigration.

The Texas senator, who is leading the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa according to the latest polls, was asked by a man in the state if, like Trump, he believed that all undocumented immigrants should be deported.

Cruz replied, “Absolutely yes.”

“And in fact, look, there’s a difference,” said Cruz. “He’s advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.”

Cruz is on a six-day trip around the state to shore up support for his candidacy. He made the remarks during an appearance in Boone. The video of the exchange was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday. Here’s a transript of the exchange:

QUESTIONER: Both you and Donald Trump are really strong on immigration, but he supports deporting all the illegal immigrants. Are you willing to say the same?

TED CRUZ: Absolutely, yes. We should enforce the law.

Q: All?

T.C.: We should enforce the law.

Q: Ok.

T.C.: And in fact, look, there’s a difference. He’s advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.

Q: So no citizens and all of them?

T.C.: So, if you read I have a very detailed 11-page immigration proposal that’s on my website it’s TedCruz.org. It was designed with Steve King and Jeff Sessions were the two who sat down with me to prepare it and it is enforce the law across the board.

[Jane Long]

ALL applicants would be in the SAME line. Trump would streamline the archaic application process, by cutting out the bureaucratic system we now have.

In a sense, everyone would receive priority processing, compared to what we have now. This is another thing conservatives have been asking for, for years....for the archaic processing system to be fixed.

[GrouchoTex]

Please read post 39

[TomGuy]

To get them out so they cannot come back in implies DEPORTATION.

So, is Ted advocating mass deportation now?

[lewislynn]

The closest person to Ted Cruz (his wife) is all about open borders...It's not just talk it's a policy statement for Council on Foreign Relations

Heidi Cruz's work for the Council on Foreign Relations: Building a North American Community

Liars, frauds and hypocrites.

[Norm Lenhart]

The is no shortage of labor with millions of unemployed Americans. Period.

Pay them.

[GrouchoTex]

That is what everyone is hoping would be the case for all people hoping to come into America.
I have not seen evidence that this is so.

[CatherineofAragon]

"If I were Cruz I would not start misrepresenting Trump’s policies."

No need for that. Trump's own contradictions and statements that reveal his core liberalism stand on their own, as Cruz shows here.

[eastforker]

I said skilled labor and yes there is a shortage. There are many good paying blue collar skilled labor jobs being filled by illegals because of that shortage. I know first hand, worked with them every day.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Huh. Seems like a clear policy distinction.

Yup.

But Trump said it first. Or something.

[newfreep]

Does Heidi spell her last name CFRUZ?

Trump2016 - our last chance to save America & our Constitution.

[SteveSCH]

Ted is just doing the political thing here - Immigration is the #1 issue, and to win he’s going to have to go harder than Trump.

[FreeReign]

ALL applicants would be in the SAME line. Trump would streamline the archaic application process, by cutting out the bureaucratic system we now have. In a sense, everyone would receive priority processing, compared to what we have now. This is another thing conservatives have been asking for, for years....for the archaic processing system to be fixed.

Legal immigrants aren't being held up by an "archaic application process". Legal immigrants are being held up by the yearly quota limit.

The yearly quota limit dictates that x number of legals are allowed in each year. And x number of legals come in per year. There is no archiac application hold up.

[TomGuy]

Cruz dodges and weave. Won't answer the question.

All of these politicians resemble slippery eels regarding immigration. They try to reword and recharacterize things. Legalization or regularization or whatever new term, it is still amnesty.

Rubio is now saying he would be the toughest on immigration.

Bottom line -- after the next election, WE will not notice much difference. They will continue to do the same, ignore the law, allow defacto amnesty, and maintain the status quo.

[Jane Long]

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[jpsb]

"Huh. Seems like he needs to distance himself from his record."

Yes, he is running away from his record, which is something he is very good at. If the political head winds threaten his career advancement he displays remarkable flexibly on just about any issue.

[FreeReign]

So, is Ted advocating mass deportation now?

Did you read what Cruz put in writing, in his plan?

He said full enforcement of the immigration laws through deportations and removals.

[Duchess47]

Trump has repeatedly said “They have to come back legally” - no arguing or misinterpreting that is there?

[Norm Lenhart]

There is no shortage of skilled labor in America. There is a shortage of companies willing to pay employees American market value.

[jpsb]

Here is another video of Ted

[WENDLE]

Does Cruz think we are stupid? .”C.: And in fact, look, there’s a difference. He has advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.”
I actually oppose lying. Cruz ,you are losing me. Watch it!!