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Ted Cruz: 'I don't think I've ever seen an Hispanic panhandler'
Business Insider ^ | April 29, 2015 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 04/29/2015 1:34:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Wednesday that he has never seen a Hispanic person begging for money on the street.

"I don't think I've ever seen an Hispanic panhandler. And the reason is: In our community it would be shameful to be begging on the street," Cruz said.

Cruz, who is of Cuban descent, made the point while speaking in Washington at a question-and-answer session with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

He used the example to argue the Republican Party should be able to compete for the Latino vote. Hispanics, Cruz said, share many of the same values that are championed by GOP leaders....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; beggars; begging; hispanics; tedcruz
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To: odawg

Are you still buzzing in my ear, gnat?


121 posted on 04/29/2015 7:52:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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122 posted on 04/29/2015 8:02:00 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: odawg
Ted Cruz has come out repeatedly AGAINST AMNESTY.

He also strongly supports securing our borders.

Stop trying to twist up the facts into a lie.

123 posted on 04/29/2015 8:03:50 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Pajamajan

My objection is to what he said about legal immigration - he’s for it, he said. Most people, when they find out that over a million LEGAL immigrants are allowed in, per year, will state that that is excessive. How many times have you heard about the millions of unemployed Americans? Every immigrant that comes over either takes a job from an American or takes taxpayer money. There is no other possibility. I figure Cruz knows that. Just legal immigration alone has transformed America. More legal immigration will do it quicker; if you like your country, you can’t keep your country. Incidentally, I don’t lie. Sometimes, like everyone else, I speculate, but speculation is not lying.


124 posted on 04/29/2015 8:16:55 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg; 2ndDivisionVet
However, that comment is revealing about what he thinks; he is laying the ground work for something, which will probably be amnesty if he gets in.

Actually, that's a much more accurate statement about Walker, given his candidatency-based conversion and his recent support for Amnesty and Open-Borders and Citizenship for Illegals.

Ted has been adamant about no citizenship for Illegals Ever.

Something you won't here out of the mouth of Walker.
125 posted on 04/29/2015 8:33:20 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fact is, 90% of the panhandlers I see are white, lots of times near “Now Hiring” signs.


126 posted on 04/29/2015 9:05:26 PM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: editor-surveyor

those are gypsies


127 posted on 04/30/2015 1:06:20 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("The enemy of your enemy is your enemy!" B. Netanyahu)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t recall ever spotting a hispanic panhandler either. They are either white or black. Mostly white, come to think of it.


128 posted on 04/30/2015 4:35:16 AM PDT by jaydee770
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I lived in Brownsville for a few years, I don’t recall any shortage of Mexican panhandlers. More importantly, the official currency in most stores seemed to be food stamps.


129 posted on 04/30/2015 6:59:16 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s plenty of Mex in Amarillo.


130 posted on 04/30/2015 7:00:49 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I haven't either. Have you?

Wow, that's going to offend a certain other group.

However panhandling today looks a lot like an EBT card next to a cell phone sitting in a nice SUV.

131 posted on 04/30/2015 7:05:53 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God is very intollerant, why shouldn't I be?)
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To: HiJinx

Wonder if he spends any time outside the Home Depot?

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The Home Depot or Lowes crowd that I’m familiar with are
there early each morning looking for a day labor job.


132 posted on 04/30/2015 7:16:40 AM PDT by deport
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To: SoConPubbie
I don't entirely trust Walker's johnny-come-lately conversion on the immigration issue either (too many Republicans become immigration restrictionists in primary election years, only to convert back to open borders advocacy while in office).

However, one thing in Walker's favor is that he's the only likely candidate to even bring up the fact that illegal immigration is only the tip of the iceberg. A lot of the current flood of Third World immigrants came here completely legally, and many who claim to want to see "something" done about illegal immigration really think that the right thing to do is to make it easier for even more people to come here legally.

Again, I'm not sure that I trust Walker, but I'm still glad somebody recognizes that legal immigration is also a major source of cultural, economic, and demographic problems.

133 posted on 04/30/2015 7:27:08 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Pajamajan
Exactly. I live on So. Cal. -Generally Hispanics here are at the Home Depot, Day Labor sites, or selling stuff by the side of the road, or at the parks, or other public areas-They sell flowers , fruit, food, sodas everywhere.

If they have minimum-wage jobs combined with 5-10 kids per family (born to teen parents), which seems to be their norm, they're still on the welfare and food stamp dole.

134 posted on 04/30/2015 7:29:05 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: momtothree

We have Hispanic panhandlers here too, usually pregnant women. They work the parking lots of strip malls. They don’t carry signs they actually work for it. lol They walk from car to car of people getting out of their cars and ask for money.


135 posted on 04/30/2015 7:31:16 AM PDT by sheana
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To: ek_hornbeck
Again, I'm not sure that I trust Walker, but I'm still glad somebody recognizes that legal immigration is also a major source of cultural, economic, and demographic problems.

We will always be a nation of immigrants. We have always been a nation of immigrants. Those coming here legally are not the issue. They will assimilate. It is those who come here illegally and steal what is not theirs and will never assimilate that are the issue.

It the current laws were actually enforced, both for Illegal and Legal, we would not be having this conversation.
136 posted on 04/30/2015 7:54:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m not saying we should end all legal immigration. I’m saying we should be a lot more restrictive of who is allowed in. We shouldn’t be in the business of importing poverty, and we should recognize that some groups of immigrants are much more readily assimilated culturally and socio-economically than others.


137 posted on 04/30/2015 7:55:59 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Veggie Todd

Oh please. You don’t get guys occasionally requesting to be paid in cash?

They’re working, they’re not begging. There’s a difference.


138 posted on 04/30/2015 8:10:12 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: HiJinx

“Begging for work?” There’s no such thing. Begging is asking for something for nothing.

I’d call it looking for work. Which is a righteous pursuit.


139 posted on 04/30/2015 8:11:32 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: ziravan
The Hispanic community at large has a culture that fits in much better with Republicans than democrats.

Poverty, illiteracy, gang activity, and teen pregnancy fit in much better with Republicans?

California was once a paradise. Then it became an extension of Mexico and turned into a hellhole.

140 posted on 04/30/2015 8:14:07 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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