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Obama: Ted Cruz Is ‘Just As Draconian’ On Immigration As Donald Trump
The Huffington Post's Huffpost Politics ^ | April 5, 2016 | Jennifer Bendery, White House & Congressional Correspondent

Posted on 04/05/2016 7:52:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Building a wall and deporting 11 million people are not serious ideas.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Donald Trump isn’t the only GOP presidential candidate whose extreme foreign policy proposals are causing trouble for the U.S. abroad. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is doing some damage of his own.

“I am getting questions constantly from foreign leaders about some of the wackier suggestions that are being made,” Obama told reporters at the White House. “It’s not just Mr. Trump’s proposals. You’re also hearing concerns about Mr. Cruz’s proposals, which in some ways are just as draconian, when it comes to immigration, for example.”

Cruz has said that as president, he would deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. He’s also backed Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and has said he would triple the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Obama said Cruz’s ideas are just as impractical and politically motivated as Trump’s proposal to cut off billions of dollars in remittances sent home by Mexican immigrants living in the United States.

“The notion that we’re doing to try to track every Western Union bit of money that’s being sent to Mexico — good luck with that,” he said....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: cruz; obama; tedcruz; trump
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1 posted on 04/05/2016 7:52:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where “draconian” means enforcing existing laws.


2 posted on 04/05/2016 7:54:27 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! The GOPe candidate? In your wildest dreams. This is a tinkle of what Cruz is gonna get from the left.

There is NOTHING more conservative than stopping a permanent democrat/marxist voting majority and doing whats best for the people and the country. By virtue of Mr. Trumps position on illegal immigration he Trumps all others conservatism.


3 posted on 04/05/2016 7:55:43 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obamass sux.


4 posted on 04/05/2016 7:55:53 PM PDT by doc1019 (Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Bambi!!!!

It is precisely your “draconian” fundamental transformation of America that Ted Cruz will resolve.

It is your evil that needs a stake driven through the heart.


5 posted on 04/05/2016 7:56:36 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Handing out teddy bears to entering illegals is draconian? Draconian in favor of illegal immigration?


6 posted on 04/05/2016 7:56:36 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost (We need to repeal and replace the Republican Party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see Cruz is getting the coveted Obama endorsement


7 posted on 04/05/2016 7:56:38 PM PDT by arl295
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We can hope.


8 posted on 04/05/2016 7:56:55 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks, Obama. Even a blind pig ... as they say.

And Cruz will actually work to enforce the reform.


9 posted on 04/05/2016 7:57:12 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go away and die, 0bama.


10 posted on 04/05/2016 7:57:47 PM PDT by Trod Upon (To be labelled "far-right" by modern journalists, one need do no more than NOT be far-left.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz says hispanic immigrants never beg and will fix your house for cheap.


11 posted on 04/05/2016 7:58:44 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal (Mofopolitics: Trump probably gets 1,237 even w/out OH)
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To: McCarthysGhost

You need to drop that silly teddy bear thing.

If you understood it at all, you would know that it was done to comfort motherless, crying children who were dumped alone in this country by sorry parents.

It was not an invitation and they did not come in.

Beating up on Ted Cruz should not require abandoning compassion.


12 posted on 04/05/2016 7:59:41 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Draconian is the fashionable new Reasonable for 2016!

13 posted on 04/05/2016 8:00:11 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hussein insists on injecting his stinking opinions about Trump (and other things in this campaign) as if he has nothing better to do. Isn’t there a golf course calling? Unless my memory is worse than I think it is, I can’t remember any other past president constantly giving his unsolicited opinions about the candidates.


14 posted on 04/05/2016 8:00:35 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Then vote for Hillary.


15 posted on 04/05/2016 8:01:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we can track all of the money which is transferred from American to American, but we can’t track money transferred from illegal in America to Mexico? How does that work, Soetoro, you communist child diddler?


16 posted on 04/05/2016 8:01:26 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

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Have you ever seen a Trumper post anything that was true?

Bet your life it’ll never happen.
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17 posted on 04/05/2016 8:02:00 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: altura

What reform would that be ? Anything short of what Trump proposes is total failure and game over ..


18 posted on 04/05/2016 8:02:01 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (It's now or never , Trump now more than ever ...If they defeat Trump, we are doomed)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

As far as I know, Cruz has never employed illegals... and we would know.

On the other hand, Trump admitted to hiring them for construction on his buildings.

But Trump explained that Americans would not work for him because they want decent wages. How can Americans be so mean???

Also Trump still employes illegals in his casino in Florida. They make good waiters and bus boys and maids.


19 posted on 04/05/2016 8:02:24 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who Obama attacks should speak volumes.


20 posted on 04/05/2016 8:02:45 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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