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Mike Lee: Suggestion Ted Cruz Supported ‘Gang of Eight’ Amnesty ‘100 Percent False’
Breitbart ^ | 12/17/15 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 12/17/2015 5:11:37 PM PST by VinL

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To: entropy12
What Cruz did push for was path to legal status for illegals.

Oh. That's OK then.

41 posted on 12/17/2015 7:49:40 PM PST by Stentor (RIP -- Nicholas Thalasinos.)
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To: TBP

They’re intolerable. You can’t reason with them, might as wait for the WALL to be built and go talk to it.


42 posted on 12/17/2015 7:55:20 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: VinL
Some lying, smearing anti-Cruz posters are going to be quite wee-weed up. Two stalwart conservative senators backing up Cruz on what happened at that time.

Does this mean Rush and Levin will have more people under the bus?

The wheels of the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round.

The wheels of the bus go round and round, tralalalala.

43 posted on 12/17/2015 8:24:50 PM PST by Moorings
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To: TBP

What counts most is what Trump said on the FIRST day he declared run for president from Trump Towers.

Not a single other candidate running in 2016 has the guts to say the same thing! Not one!

Good for Trump to have the courage to deport all illegals. Laws must be followed. Otherwise what do we have? We have no country without enforcing laws.

And not a single other candidate running in 2016 has the guts to say he/she will build impenetrable high & mighty WALL on the southern border. Not one! Zilch, zero, Zip.


44 posted on 12/17/2015 8:34:10 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Pick strongest on immigration control - Santorum as VP.)
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To: TBP

That makes too much sense for some folks. Going to the expense of rounding them all up and then going to the expense of processing them back in is their plan.


45 posted on 12/18/2015 5:57:12 AM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: entropy12
What counts most is what Trump said on the FIRST day he declared run for president from Trump Towers.

Which may well be a campaign conversion, given his longstanding record.

46 posted on 12/18/2015 10:17:24 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: entropy12
And not a single other candidate running in 2016 has the guts to say he/she will build impenetrable high & mighty WALL on the southern border. Not one!

Cruz has.

47 posted on 12/18/2015 10:23:11 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: entropy12
And not a single other candidate running in 2016 has the guts to say he/she will build impenetrable high & mighty WALL on the southern border. Not one!

Cruz has.

48 posted on 12/18/2015 10:23:18 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: entropy12
Laws must be followed. Otherwise what do we have? We have no country without enforcing laws.

Is that why Trump supports "a path" for illegals and reimporting the "terrific" ones? That sounds like amnesty to me, not the rule of law.

49 posted on 12/18/2015 10:24:47 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

You are in a state of confusion.
I will make it simple for you.

Trump wants to deport ALL illegals FIRST.
That is according to existing immigration law.
Cruz wants a path to legal status for illegals.
Personally I am against ANY amnesty to illegals by
giving them a path to legal status. So is Trump.

Then, he will pick and choose those who can return,
by applying for LEGAL entry back in United States.
Trump wants to do everything LEGALLY!!!!!

If that does not clear up the fog in you mind,
you might need professional help.


50 posted on 12/18/2015 11:09:41 AM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Pick strongest on immigration control - Santorum as VP.)
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To: entropy12

Trump has supported a “path” for illegals — as recently as a few months ago, AFTER he was in the Presidential race.

Cruz fought the Gang of Eight amnesty and put in a poison pill amendment (which failed) that would remove one of the pro-illegal provisions from it — the one Schumer said was key to the deal.

These are FACTS. I know they’re not convenient, but that’s teh way it is.


51 posted on 12/18/2015 11:33:11 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: entropy12

Here is Senator Cruz’s position as of June 2013:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/19/cruz_gang_of_eight_bill_offers_the_same_empty_promises_as_1986_reform.html

“This Gang of Eight bill is a disaster. It is the exact same thing we saw in 1986. The last big immigration reform was in 1986, and the federal government told the American people, we’re gonna grant amnesty for the three million people who are here illegally. And in exchange for that we’re actually gonna secure the borders. We’re gonna solve illegal immigration, and the problem is gonna go away.

“Now, we saw what happened. The amnesty happened, the borders never got secured, and now three decades later, instead of three million people, it’s 11 million people.

“11 million, 12 million. We don’t have an exact number, but it is three to four times bigger than what it was in 1986, and we’re hearing the exact same empty promises. What the Gang of Eight bill does is it grants legalization now. It takes everyone who’s here illegally and says, “You’re legal,” and then just like in 1986 it promises, “sometime in the future, trust us, wink-wink, we’ll secure the border.” I don’t think the American people are that foolish. You know, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If this bill is enacted, it will make the problem worse. If this bill is enacted, in another decade or two we’re gonna be back here not with 11 million, but with 20 million or 30 million people here illegally. This is a broken system. I think what Americans want is fix the problem, stop playing political games, actually secure the border and make a legal immigration system that works.

“Well, the Democrats want this for pure politics. Chuck Schumer was very candid in the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said, “If there is no citizenship, there can be no reform.” This is all about their endeavor. They want to grant amnesty, and they hope to get a lot more Democratic voters, or they want this to be voted down and use it as a political issue in 2014 and 2016.

“On the Republican side, sadly, a lot of the support of it is political as well. You know, after 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, “You’ve got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.” And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared. I gotta tell you, I think that political argument is complete nonsense. If you look at the last time we enacted amnesty in 1986, the next election was 1988, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote went down. It is not the case — Hispanics are not the single-issue, monolithic voters.”

I see nothing there that is incompatible with what he is saying now. And furthermore, Cruz (with a couple of others) led the fight against the bill — and put up a petition against it.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/06/20/ted-cruz-launches-national-petition-against-gang-of-eight-s-amnesty-bill/

Meanwhile, here is Donald Trump’s position as of EARLIER THIS YEAR:

(July 26)

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259589/donald-trump-endorses-amnesty-illegal-aliens-daniel-greenfield

“Now, a lot of these people are helping us, whether it’s the grapes, or whether it’s jobs, and sometimes it’s jobs, in all fairness, I love our country, but sometimes it’s jobs that a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do. I mean, there are jobs that a lot of people don’t want to do. I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in.

“I’ve been giving it so much thought, you know you have a — on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart...I mean, a lot of people don’t understand that, but the DREAMers, it’s a tough situation, we’re going to do something, and one of the things we’re going to do is expedite — when somebody’s terrific, we want them back here.

“I have to tell you: Some of these people have been here, they’ve done a good job. You know, in some cases, sadly, they’ve been living under the shadows. ... If somebody’s been outstanding, we try and work something out.”

[The article continues] This is in line with what CNN’s Chris Moody reported Trump saying during a press conference in Chicago at the end of June. When asked what he would do about the illegal immigrants already residing in the country once the border was secured, Trump replied, “give them a path,” according to Moody.

https://soundcloud.com/glennbeck/beck-blitz-donald-trumppro-amnesty

(As of July 14)

http://liberteanow.us/2015/07/14/2601/

Trump: You have to give them a path. You have 20 million, 30 million, nobody knows what it is. It used to be 11 million. Now, today I hear it’s 11, but I don’t think it’s 11. I actually heard you probably have 30 million. You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed. You have to do that.

(As of August 10 — remember all these dates on the Trump quotes are THIS YEAR)

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422351/donald-trump-immigration-amnesty-build-wall

“Asked about his immigration ideas on CNN, Trump was a mess, beginning with the old “jobs Americans won’t do” canard favored by open-borders proponents (a canard because it always leaves out the relevant qualifier: “at current wages”), then suggesting that we should deport the millions of illegals who are already here only to turn around and bring them back (”I want to move them out, and we’re going to move them back in, and let them be legal.” This process would include those brought here as young children, who will be deported and recycled based on the criterion of whether they are —” Trump’s word — “terrific.” What might constitute a federal terrificness standard remains unclear. “We’re going to do something,” Trump said. “I’ve been giving it so much thought. You know you have a, on a humanitarian basis, you have a lot of deep thought going into this, believe me. I actually have a big heart.”

[The article continues] Deporting some 11 million illegals who have for many years evaded deportation only to reimport them under an expedited legal immigration system, the contours of which currently are undefined, and then granting them some sort of permanent legal status is simply another variation on amnesty, and a complicated, expensive, and thick-headed version of amnesty at that. Like the proposed reform program of 2007, which would have purportedly required illegals to be present in their country of origin when applying for legal status, this isn’t just amnesty — it’s also amnesty-laundering.

These are pro-amnesty positions Trump took EARLIER THIS YEAR (2015)! By contrast, Ted Cruz fought the amnesty bill in the U.S. Senate two years ago.


52 posted on 12/18/2015 2:32:48 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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