Posted on 03/22/2016 12:11:40 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Plans pushed by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz under the immigration reform debate in 2013 would have jumped the number of immigrants, including those from Muslim nations, by doubling green card caps and boosting temporary worker visas five-fold.
Under the Cruz plan, yearly legal immigration would have gone from 740,000 to 1,675,000.
Well before Donald Trump drew a line on Muslim immigrants following a wave of terror attacks, highlighted by Tuesday's deadly blasts in Belgium, Cruz's suggested changes to the so-called Gang of Eight legislation would have also created a family green card category and lifted the per-country caps on immigrants.
A lifting of those caps would have opened the doors to more Muslim immigrants from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other nations known for harboring terrorists.
Secrets recently reported that the administration has approved more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C.
Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.
Under the Cruz amendments, shown in full below, the yearly cap on green cards would have increased from 675,000 to 1.35 million, not including refugees and asylees.
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We need TRUMP more than ever before in the White House!
Bare faced lie.
Trump... another 10,000 votes
Needs to be shouted far and wide. Utah needs more robo calls today
Cruz is dangerous for America on several levels. Wake up and smell the pablum.
Isn’t this the “Poison Pill” amendment Cruz offered to double down on stupid, thereby calling out the Gang of 8 on stupidity?
Come on, folks. Tried, failed.
Next?
Both you and Cruz are the ISIS lovers. He wanted to up the VISA quotas.
Could you counter what you call lies please with some facts of your?
This article is pure crap.
Cruz supported dozens of amendments to the Gang of Eight. To take how the bill would stand after a single one of those amendments and portray that as what Cruz “pushed for” is beyond deceitful; it is an outright lie.
Cruz did say he want to pass immigration reform. He said his amendment to offer non-citizenship status to remaining illegal amnesty would make the then-current immigration reform package more likely to pass. Seeing ONLY the clips of his comments during the debate on the vote, one could reasonably infer that he would vote for the package if only that amendment passed.
But no Senator could have been misled, because they had all seen him push for all the other amendments.
"Diversity" is DEATH!
Are we still acting like we don’t know those were poison pill amendments?
Correct, but what do you expect considering the source?
It was Bush who AFTER 911 allowed in MORE Muslims into the U.S. than were allowed in the previous two decades before 911. The Bush family has now joined the Cruz campaign.
Wasn’t Cruz one of those at the border handing out teddy bears?
I wish it was tried and failed. Alas, on this formerly conservative website, apparently 70% of the idiots and morons buy this crap... because they see it posted every single day.
Maybe we can accept all the immigrants and move them to Iowa and Utah. Apparently that’s OK with their residents
I really believe that before this is all over— Cruz will be so thoroughly demonized by trump supporters that literally no one or any group will surpass Cruz in their constructs of evil.
This is so absurd.
When people are willing to say anything—even grossly false things like this— its hard to have a civil conversation.
I am glad jesus beat the crucifixion because without that I would give up on this garbage.
What a salacious lie.
Another gross exaggeration from the Trump camp. The Bush family did NOT join the Cruz campaign. Neil Bush did.
Bold faced Truth.
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