Ted Cruz does not support work permits. See Post #315. Nowhere in his proposed amendments (all were rejected) was there any provision for work permits for illegals.
In fact, Ted has harshly criticized the idea of giving legal status to work for illegals because it puts Americans at a great disadvantage. Illegals awarded RPI status would be exempt from Obamacare and employers could avoid penalties and taxes by hiring RPI workers.
Ted is deadset against rewarding any illegals because of the message it would send to those who have been following the legal pathways to immigration.
Ted is deadset against any status that leads to a green card and against any green card eligibility because a green card held for 5 years allows for the holder to apply for citizenship. See the link in post #316.
>>Ted Cruz does not support work permits. See Post #315. Nowhere in his proposed amendments (all were rejected) was there any provision for work permits for illegals.<<
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Work permits and green cards are NOT the same thing.
This is where I got the work permit stance (from originally linked article):
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso.
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You’re right. Sen Cruz does NOT want legal status for illegals. He also proposed an amendment to cut off welfare benefits for those staying here to work. The Dims, of course, rejected that, too.
Cruz is indeed for giving work permits to illegals. He says he’s only against green cards because they provide a path to citizenship. But it doesn’t really matter that he wants to stop short of citizenship. If tens of millions of illegals are given work permits, they’ll ultimately end up with citizenship and their citizenship numbers, through chain migration, ultimately close to tripled.
I know this article has been pointed out to you before, but here it goes again:
““The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
Mr. Cruz said recent polling indicated that people outside Washington support some reform, including legal status without citizenship. He said he was against naturalization because it rewarded lawbreakers and was unfair to legal immigrants. It also perpetuates illegal crossings, he added.
Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.
Mr. Cruz said the Obama administration and partisan Democrats would not yield on the citizenship requirement, which they know would kill the entire effort because of a lack of support in the House. The result, he said, will be a future campaign tool by which Democrats can blame Republicans for failing to overhaul immigration.
“If your objective is actually to pass a bill insisting on a path to citizenship, it is in both intent and effect a poison pill,” he said, adding that he thinks many of the immigration groups working on the issue are “being taken advantage of.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/cruz-tries-to-claim-the-middle-ground-on-immigration.html?_r=0