You’re really missing the bigger picture. I am surprised you didn’t apologize for using the NY Times as your guide but then you have to wrongly infer that Senator Cruz supports legalization of illegals only because he was not successful in removing that part of the Gang of 8 bill.
Senator Cruz was successful in removing amnesty from the Senate Bill but he wasn’t able to remove the legalization provision from the bill. So what did he do? Do you remember? Do you remember what he did? Because this is the part you are either forgetting or you are deliberately omitting. What he did was to work with the House to prepare them, make them aware of what the Senate was going to do. Senator Cruz was the reason that the House shut down immigration. And Senator Cruz was criticized for working directly with the House as it was claimed this was not his place to do so.
That makes Ted Cruz a conservative hero, and he is.
Here’s the real Cruz on the issue of legalization:
“Ted Cruz Vows To Oppose Any Path To Legalization for Undocumented Immigrants”
“Sen. Ted Cruz is dead set against any path to legalization for undocumented immigrants, unless it sends them on a detour back to their native countries, he told talk show host Sean Hannity in an interview on Monday.”
Oh, and legalization—which for the umpteenth time, in the right circumstances, Cruz is for—is amnesty.
(And yes, once more, it will inevitably lead to citizenship for the current illegals and their chain-migration family members.)
House was going to vote down immigration no matter what with Representatives like Bachmann, Gohmert and others. Didn’t even Boehner give in to House pressure not to bring immigration up. The House has a strong conservative base, a Senator isn’t going to tell them what to do.