Cruz pushed for doubling of immigrants, including Muslims, to 1.67M PER YEAR

The Washington Examiner ^ | 3/22/2016 | Paul Bedard

[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.

[Pajamajan]

Poison pill amendment by Cruz to stop the Gang of 8 Amnesty- back when Trump was for Amnesty.

[BlatherNaut]

“...Earlier in 2013, during an interview with CBS News, Cruz hinted at support for legal status when asked what should be done about the millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

“I think there probably could be a compromise on that,” Cruz responded, “if a path to citizenship was taken off the table.”...”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/12/21/cruz_fights_attacks_on_his_immigration_stance_129106.html

[BobL]

“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.”

INTERESTING that no one, including Cruz, called it a poison pill until it started being used against him.

[Balding_Eagle]

BTTT Cruz immigration disaster.

[PA Engineer]

Bare faced lie.

You mean the visit with Glenn to the boarder was not an act of love?

Next time they will be handing out soccer balls, teddy bears and korrans.

Wake up!

Never held a private sector job, graduated from Harvard, constitutional scholar, lawyer, junior senator, foreign born, hides his real name, hid his nationality during his senate run, repeatedly failed to vote as senator, and immediately began seeking the office of president once elected.

OBAMA PART DEUX

[CSM]

So, do you disagree with Trump’s recent “softening on this issue?”