I’ll see Cruz’s amendment on the 11 (yes, we all know it’s more) million here now and raise it to make it permanent for any future illegals. Take away the political angle in this corrupt bill and there’s no reason to do anything but enforce the current law.
No path to citizenship for illegals and no voting rights for these lawbreakers.
Cruz makes Texas proud.
It is given to those here illegally who have met the rest of the "amnesty" requirements. It allows permanent residency, but a Permanent Guest Worker cannot apply for citizenship just as one here on a Tourist or Student Visa cannot apply for US Citizenship.
If they want citizenship, they must surrender their Permanent Guest Worker visa, return to their country of citizenship, and apply for Permanent Residency like everybody else.
Yow.
Now that’s the way to take the fight to them: see you one and raise you two.
For those of you from the Cruz staff reading this, here’s another little point that never gets made: if Amnesty does pass, will the illegals who are amnestied have to allocute to the original crime?
If so, will they have a record?
If you were a Citizen you would have that. Even if you weren’t punished (allocution is usually a public admission of sin linked to a grant of leniency).
In what upside down world would citizens have more serious consequences for their actions then illegal aliens?
Will there be a general amnesty for everyone in the United States convicted of a federal misdemeanor at some point in their lives once this Mother of All Amnesties passes?
If not, why not? Do illegal aliens constitute a Special Class of Privileged Persons, able to do certain federal crimes at will with no risk of any consequence?
Good luck Ted.... I’m all for it forever.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015456/posts
Ted Cruz challenges Joe Biden to debate about gun control
Washington Examiner ^ | May 3, 2013 | 3:06 pm | Modified: May 3, 2013 at 3:25 pm | Joel Gehrke
Posted on Friday, May 03, 2013 1:09:09 PM by Perdogg
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noting that Vice President Joe Biden reportedly plans to revive a legislative push for gun control, challenged him to a debate about policy responses to gun violence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015456/posts
For once in my life, I am proud of my senator !
“...filed an amendment that would bar undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States from ever earning citizenship.”
The right and courageous thing to do. This will send a message to all current and future lawbreakers.
Ted Cruz looks a little bit like John Wayne. Unfortunately, Texas has been taken over by illegals. South Texas is a disaster.
Ted Cruz on being a “schoolyard bully”: I do so appreciate Harry Reid’s candor
posted at 9:21 pm on May 7, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
Heh. For a quick addendum to Mary Katharine’s earlier post chronicling the continuing Senatorial drama with the indignant claims of procedural “bullying” that Majority Leader Harry Reid is leveling at Sen. Ted Cruz, you know Cruz wasn’t going to take that one lying down. Try if you will, but there’s just no denying that Sen. Reid has been coming off as irate and condescending while Cruz is cool, calm, collected, and — what’s that word again? — oh yeah, civil. The man impeccably lays out his case, and is it just me, or does it sound like this “very junior senator” has considerably more gravitas than his elder colleague? Via RCP:
I rise today in praise of Majority Leader Harry Reid. Yesterday, our esteemed Majority Leader said the following — quote — ‘My friend from Texas is like the schoolyard bully. He pushes everyone around and is losing. And instead of playing the game according to the rules, he not only takes the ball home with him, but he changes the rules.’ Today, Leader Reid continued his demonstration of civility, referring to me as the — quote — ‘very junior Senator from Texas.’ As I noted yesterday, the Senate is not a schoolyard. Setting aside the irony of calling someone a bully and then shouting them down when they attempt to respond, today I wish simply to commend my friend from Nevada for his candor.
Not really.
The first step in getting amnesty through is to first get illegals to be legal. Citizenship and official sanction to keep giving them all the benefits they’re already getting can—and would—come later.
modernize, streamline and expand legal immigration;
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I’d just as soon he not increase the numbers at this time. They may need to adjust the proportional numbers from varying countries but let’s assimilate what we have before increasing the influx. JMO.
Bingo!! Bingo!!
It’s a sad state of affairs we live in when a lawmaker is controversial for saying that existing laws should be enforced.
Cruz’s position should be the norm, not the exception, and it’s good to know that we have at least one voice of reason on this issue in the Senate (now that other Tea Party would-be luminaries like Rubio and Paul have sold out on immigration reform).
Cruz Control! Go Cruz
NO DEALS!
Good for him!!
good, they broke the law and should nto be rewarded
Not unless you have 60 votes in your pocket to break the filibuster it doesn't.