———Cruz copied after he saw it was indeed popular.———
Wrong......
May 9 th 2013 Cruz proposed legislation to finish the 700 mile wall while Trump was pushing amnesty....
LOL, it was never a wall until Trump. It was a fence.
In the beginning of the campaign, Cruz was deafeningly silent on illegal immigration. He did not have an illegal immigration plan for months, while the other candidates had detailed ones. He condescendingly said ‘The American people don’t want to have that conversation’. I sure as hell did, so I found a new candidate with the balls to have that conversation. And then he got a plan but it was vague on what to do with the illegals here. He was using self-deportation, then added to his plan a bit at a time until it resembled Trump’s.
In 2013, Cruz said he wanted a plan ‘that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows’.
I like his plan now just fine. And I hope he actually means it. Just as I hope Trump means his. But Trump was first on this issue in this campaign, taking the arrows while Cruz was nowhere to be seen.