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2013 Flashback: Donald Trump meets with illegal immigration activists, says “You’ve convinced me”

http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/2013-flashback-donald-trump-meets-with-illegal-immigration-activists-says-youve-convinced-me/


2 posted on 02/24/2016 7:49:22 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Trump’s a two faced phony. Not selling me that defective bill of goods. And here is precisely one issue on which he cannot be trusted.


16 posted on 02/24/2016 8:03:11 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Ronald Reagan: Humble/Proud of the American People. Trump: Arrogant/Proud of himself. Big difference)
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To: GodGunsGuts
From your link.

"Mr. Trump talked about the art of applause lines. “You know,” he said of his events, “if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of, maybe thinking about leaving, I can sort of tell the audience, I just say, ‘We will build the wall!’ and they go nuts.”

30 posted on 02/24/2016 8:10:21 PM PST by Spunky (Trump said "If Ivanka wasn't my daughter I would probably be dating her")
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To: GodGunsGuts
For example, Despite Cruz^s attacks on his party^s donor class and establishment, the Texas senator Ted Cruz^s GOP campaign has received $37 million from just four donors.

The Wilks family of Cisco, Texas, New York hedge fund tycoon Bob Mercer, Texas energy investor Toby Neugebauer and Illinois manufacturing moguls Dick and Liz Uihlein.

Cruz pushing Path to Legal Status for ALL Illegals

Cheap Foreign Workers on H1-B visa

Pushing TPP

Pushing import of Syrian Refugees

Video's do not lie. Believe Your Lyin Eyes!

His BC: Ted Cruz has close association with the Bushes. He worked on George W. Bush^s 2000 presidential campaign as a domestic policy adviser and served in the Bush administration as associate deputy attorney general in the Justice Department and director of policy planning in the Federal Trade Commission.

Time magazine article: [Time magazine had one of many reports clarifying his immigration posturing:

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz declined to close the door to a potential pathway to legal status for the 11 million people in the U.S. illegally Friday, saying he wouldn"t elaborate on his plans for them until after the border is secure.

Seeking to carve out a space between real estate mogul Donald Trump, who is calling for the forcible deportation of those in the U.S. illegally, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who co-authored the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform bill that included a pathway to citizenship, Cruz would not explicitly rule out a pathway to legal status for the undocumented.

That, plus his previous support for a huge increase in H1B visas, stymied him as he tried to launch an attack on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who was a co-author and major mover on the Gang of 8 immigration bill that passed the Senate overwhelmingly. On one level, Rubio" team is simply pointing out that if anti-immigration types want the real deal, Cruz is not the one. Rubio, of course, benefits if Cruz cannot capture the anti-immigration segment of the electorate to whom Donald Trump panders. On another level, however, what is at stake is a larger argument about Cruz's character. Essentially. the argument goes: He is not a hard-liner; he's an opportunist whose positions are no different, and in some cases worse, than those of other Republicans.

On immigration, for example, the entire anti-"amnesty" crusade is a canard unless, like Trump, you want to round people up and kick them out. Otherwise, you are exactly where other candidates are fix the border, reform legal immigration and then regularize the 11 million here. Cruz spends his time excoriating other Republicans for squishiness, but when you get down to it, he's exactly where they are” unwilling to undertake a massive, expensive, intrusive deportation program. In other words, he's not an anti-immigration extremist; he's just posturing as one.

What do we know about Rafael Eduardo Cruz? He was born in a foreign country. He was admitted to Harvard only because of Affirmative Action Admissions Policies. He was given good grades by Liberal professors because of his race, even though his work was substandard. He has kept his college transcripts secret for reasons he will not admit. He has had a shameful Senate record, accomplishing nothing, not voting, not showing up for work. He has never had a real job in the private sector.

95 posted on 02/25/2016 12:24:51 AM PST by entropy12 (When you vote, you are actually voting for the rich donors!)
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To: GodGunsGuts

That’s an act of desperation to repeat a vague statement - he doesn’t say what he was convinced of. Knowing what border cities look like, he was probably convinced to build a wall. But more importantly, that one vague statement was never corroborated - it is hearsay by one liberal politician with zero witnesses.

The Cruz campaign is desperate. Even Texas is in play now.


98 posted on 02/25/2016 5:33:25 AM PST by CottonBall
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