You need to get better informed about what Cruz has said. From the NYT:
Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Mr. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.
Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.
“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.
Cruz is 100% on the vast majority of long held conservative principle. Only an abject moron would reject that and call themselves a conservative with America’s interest at heart.
Immigration is the defining issue of our times. If we do not reduce legal immigration, the country is finished--at least the country as we know it. CA is the canary in the coal mine. It has the demographics today that the US will have in 2050. All the other issues pale in comparison. They are just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Demography is destiny.
Check out Phyllis Schlafly's study, How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party
You need to learn to read about your own candidate and stop pretending he’s not a lying Romneybot. He did hire Mitt’s people afterall.
Funny that this ‘defining’ issue didn’t hit anyonesmajor issue radar until Walker needed a talking point. Because it was NOT a defining anything. And FR used to solidly pro legal immigration until the libs found someone to hang their hat on. Now lookie here! it’s the defining issue of our time!