Posted on 04/24/2015 4:12:26 PM PDT by VinL
Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday took a shot at rival presidential contender Scott Walker for comments the Wisconsin governor has made regarding immigration policy.
Cruz opposes comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for the estimated 11-12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. But the Texan is a big proponent of legal immigration and making adjustments to U.S. law that would facilitate more legal immigration. He criticized Walker for suggesting that he supported limiting legal immigration if it has a negative impact on the wages of American workers.
"There is considerable bipartisan agreement outside of Washington that we need to improve and streamline legal immigration so that we can remain a nation that welcomes and celebrates legal immigrants," Cruz said in an interview with the Washington Examiner during a brief campaign swing through Las Vegas.after cost estimates came in higher than anticipated.
I think it is a mistake for any politician to on the one hand embrace amnesty, embrace a pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally, and on the other hand seek to restrict or punish legal immigrants," Cruz continued. "I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba. [President Ronald] Reagan referred to legal immigrants as Americans by choice and there is no stronger advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am."
"I think the right approach is to secure the border, follow the rule of law and embrace and improve legal immigration," Cruz said.
Walker has conceded a change of heart on immigration policy as he gears up to launch a 2016 presidential bid. The governor, 47, previously supported a pathway to legal status for illegal immigrants. Now he is opposed. Supporting a pathway to legalization or citizenship could be problematic for a Republican candidate seeking his party's White House nomination.
But in a recent interview with conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, Walker appeared to move farther to the right on immigration than even amnesty hawks like Cruz. Here's what Walker said, as reported by Breitbart. (read more)
“Immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than the native born and they vote two to one Democrat.”
The GOP is screwing us over just as hard as the democrats do, if not even harder.
I can’t see what difference it makes who people vote for when it clearly makes no difference who we vote for.
Cruz is almost suggesting foreigners have a special right to immigrate as long as they act nice.
I dont think foreigners rights should or do extend that far,
“Not fair to legal immigrants.” Who cares? Life isn’t fair. He should be more worried about life not being fair to American demographics such as poor or disabled.
It’s not fair all the illegals who got amnestied under Reagan got a better deal than other waves of illegals.
Mass Immigration is not fair to poor Americans and disabled people looking for work. They are more of a protected class than foreigners filling out an application.
Is it fair that Mexico and Ireland got to dump large numbers of people onto America throughout history?
Is it fair that other countries throughout history didn’t get to send as many of their people to America?
So your family was Johnny come latelys that got here around the mid 1700s.
Big deal, you carry no love for America yourself, as you plead for her obliteration and the complete dominance of the democrat party as they literally import their voters.
Thanks, something was nagging me about that, but I didn’t take the time to look it up to see what I was forgetting.
Regardless, an America quickly approaching a population of a billion people, in the future it will not be viewed as a smart plan but rather designed chaos.
That’s where it’s heading if we have no limitations regarding population.
Jeff Sessions said,
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.
Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
If Cruz thinks he can change that dynamic with his stance on increasing immigration and allowing the illegals to stay but without a path to citizenship, he is sadly mistaken.
It’s the Statue of Liberty not the Statue of Immigration.
We live in 2015, not 1880.
Would you like see America approach a billion people? This needs to be considered.
At the rate were going, some of the young kids will be alive to see America approaching or even exceeding a billion.
I’d hate to see that for them...
Yes, I guess you can make that same foolish statement about the other families who had family members who immigrated here in the 1700s, and fought in the Revolutionary War as Johnny come latelys and make your self to be a fool...
Why don’t you say that about all of them who immigrated here in the 1700s ?
Ohh I surely do love America...
When did your family immigrate here ?
Agree.
I’ll answer it for you. Liberals may have succeeded in perpetrating a fraud on the presidency. But they did it with media, vote and other frauds. Not by posting obvious anticonservative comments on this forum.
The trolls here are fairly easy to spot.
BTW on the control comment, that’s exactly correct.
What is accurately predicted is the bigger the population the more control/regulation.
No question.
I posted here many months ago that Cruz was another crony capitalist in favor importing more legal cheap labor. I was flamed pretty harshly.
The bottom line is that none of the potential Republican candidates have the right position on immigration. They all are afraid of offending the major donors that own the Republican establishment.
Many generations before that.
I was only mocking your pridefulness over it, not mocking 1700s colonists.
By the way, your mother’s side was moving from British soil, to British soil.
I said 1. I guess you missed where I said 1.
And, are you calling my mom a non-American, because if you are, screw you.
Well Cruz has opened the door for Walker to come after him with his full might. This was a stupid move and unnecessary at this point of the race when Walker isn’t even in yet. Cruz promised not to go after Walker too. So much for keeping his word. Cruz must be scared shitless of Walker and he should be. Oh well I won’t lose sleep over what will come Cruz’s way. This one Cruz started.
I would certainly hope not but nothing surprises me any more. We keep waiting for the rest of the people to come to Texas from Mexico then we’re going to move to Mexico. Shouldn’t be long now.
Yep, but the pro-immigration freepers have never explained why they would support what makes this modern leftism possible.
If you notice, they avoid acknowledging that we are in effect discussing the importation of not only democrat voters and the members of the left, but the people who make conservatism impossible and that make small, limited government impossible, and who are creating a police state.
Why would a conservative be fighting to import the end of conservatism, and doing it on purpose?
Weird, I think you have faded out.
I don’t think Cruz is worried about being honest. Walker might be, but Cruz ain’t.
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