Great summary CA. I had to go to a site to get it as I would have messed things up on my own.
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In a Judiciary Committee speech at the time, Cruz said his amendment would “remove the pathway to citizenship,” but that the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally “would still be eligible for legal status” so they can come “out of the shadows.” ...
Though Cruz’s amendment failed, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and Utah Senator Mike Lee, two fierce Republican opponents of legalizing undocumented people, voted for it. Democrats, who controlled the Senate, had made a path to citizenship a non-negotiable component of reform....
Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Sessions, noted in an e-mail that “numerous conservatives offered amendments to the progressive Gang of Eight bill that were designed to improve enforcement or combat amnesty.” He continued, “That does not mean these Senators supported the bill with those changes. That would be an extremely untenable interpretation.”
I’m not a Cruz guy. I’m leaning Rubio but Ithe worst thing about him is the Gang of Eight. Cruz did the right thing by stopping it, and attempts to twist that into him actually supporting amnesty are just politics, not the truth.