Friday, January 8, 2016

Ted Cruz’s Immigration Reversal

Via Frank


On the campaign trail, Ted Cruz says he’s the “consistent conservative”–the one candidate who always sticks to his principles.

But on immigration, that’s an open question.

The Texas senator has long been a fierce proponent of expanding legal immigration and visas for high-skilled workers, so much so that he repeatedly broke with immigration hardliners like Sen. Jeff Sessions during Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings in 2013. Now, Cruz is advocating a tough approach that would impose a temporary halt on legal immigration–a significant reversal for a senator who espoused more moderate positions on immigration in Congress than on the campaign trail.

While much of the recent scrutiny on Cruz’s immigration record has been on whether he backs legalizing the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country, there is no doubt that Cruz was a staunch advocate of opening U.S. borders for those entering into the United States through the proper legal channels. He fought to allow more legal immigrants into the United States during the Senate’s most consequential immigration debate since George W. Bush’s presidency.

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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2016 at 5:50 AM

    Highly skilled motivated immigrants who want to work and contribute to society - I don't mind so much as long as they go through the legal channels to obtain citizenship. Those in fact are one of what makes America great - opportunity to better your life. Its the 'gimme my freebies' crowd that get me cranky - we have enough Americans with that attitude already and don't require the extra baggage.

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    1. Brock TownsendJanuary 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM

      Its the 'gimme my freebies' crowd that get me cranky - we have enough Americans with that attitude already and don't require the extra baggage.

      Don't tell me. :)It took 12 years for my wife's brother and sister to come here legally and we are responsible for them not becoming pubic wards for 10 years, so these lower than life forms who walk across the border and we support them with our taxes deserve to be sent back immediately and none let in again.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2016 at 9:24 PM

    A couple of weeks ago, Cruz was being interviewed by Greta
    on Fox and Greta asked him about immigration - she asked
    him the same question 5-6 times and Cruz skirted around the
    question over and over, refusing to answer. I quit liking
    him that nite. My mind kept screaming, CFR.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2016 at 10:58 PM

    Ron Paul, I know. I still have Ron Paul's bumper sticker
    on my rear car window. Sigh. But the real anger is how
    he was screwed by the mafia.
    I must say, though you probably disagree, that Cruz is not
    a Natural born citizen but a Foreign born citizen.

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