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Cruz added that he tried unsuccessfully to pass an amendment to the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013 that would have barred undocumented immigrants from receiving citizenship but still allowed them to obtain permits to live and work in America. Its failure, he said, showed Democrats were unwilling to compromise on citizenship at all costs.
Cruz’s anecdote again left things open to interpretation. At the time he offered his citizenship amendment, The New York Times described it as Cruz seeking a “middle ground” between full citizenship and mass deportation in which undocumented immigrants could still work legally in America.
On Wednesday, however, a spokesman for Cruz, Brian Phillips, clarified to msnbc on Twitter that this interpretation was incorrect and Cruz merely offered the amendment as an exercise to prove Democrats’ obstinacy on citizenship. It was not an endorsement of the work permit component of the bill that his amendment left intact.
“Cruz’s amendment had nothing to do with that issue,” Phillips said.
Cruz offered an unambiguous defense of greater legal immigration, where he boasted that he had offered to expand an annual cap on H1B visas for high-tech workers “fivefold” in order to attract more talent to the United States...." Ted Cruz tiptoes around immigration at Hispanic business event
Well, Mary, you can trust Hillary then.
The gamble: Imported Mexican labor will eventually get tired of paying taxes to support the native, lazy Americans.
Over 40% of the Texas hispanic vote went to Republicans, but I guess they won’t talk about that
Hispanic voters are weary of being targeted as a desirable voter demographic to be flattered but not much more. They can spot the phony.
Oh really Miss/Mrs Sanchez. The Democratic Party looks at all Hispanics as one giant group that thinks and votes the same. They don’t see that many Hispanics are successful and gaining in wealth and prosperity. On the contrary, they see a group that is downtrodden and needing the Democratic Party’s “assistance”.
Wow! This thread got hijacked.
No one pointed out that blacks certainly voted for a “ black” because he was black.
Unlike your average Americans, the “Latinos”are solidly on the DemocRAT plantation,right Mary?
One election night, after being declared winner, I want to hear a reporter ask Cruz what is his goal for the next four years as President. And his response:
"To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their girlymen!"
I love these twisted logic type of post.
Race/Ethnicity does or doesn’t matter/exist? It must exist if we have to ‘reach out’ to the Latinos...
o really ?
WISE latinos voted 67% for obozo in 2008 and 71% in 2012.
really good job there of phony-spotting Mary, you liberal tool
We do not need more H1-b visas but less.
He also needs to focus on the largest voting bloc in the Republican party. Working, middle class, Conservvative Whites.
Hispanics are similar to blacks in welfare dependency, education, out of wedlock births and criminality. They are not natural Conservatives. They are natural gibmedats, for the most part, like their illegal cousins.
Re: “...Hispanic voters whom he [Ted Cruz] views as ready for takeover by the GOP.”
What!
Is the author aware that Cruz ran for the Senate in Texas in 2012?
According to a Latino Decisions poll in that election, Cruz got just 35% of the Hispanic vote.
And that made him think Hispanic voters could be taken over by the GOP?
I think he's targeting tea party voters and evangelicals, with conservative hispanics third.
It's a realistic strategy that doesn't compromise his principles.
I stand with Ted.....
Who cares what a Chicago columnist thinks????
No endorsement of the Gang of Eight Work Permit?
Here's what Cruz said in El Paso, according to the New York Time:
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight...”
So this is just a misunderstanding? This quote was taken out of context? The Amendment was just a trick to show the Democrats were not serious about reforming immigration, a political trick to show the Democrats would not compromise on citizenship?
Cruz offered this Amendment 2 years ago. Cruz made this statement in El Paso 18 months ago.
A lot of immigration specialists, like Mickey Kaus at the Daily Caller, jumped on him immediately for the El Paso statement, and Cruz, as far as I know, made no response at all.
Please correct me, and provide the link, if Cruz did respond to Kaus or other writers 18 months ago.
If he said nothing, then he allowed Texas Hispanics to think he supported the Work Permit for 18 months, when, in fact, he did not.
Since Cruz now says he was misunderstood, does that mean he has supported deportation for all illegals for the last 18 months?
I look forward to seeing Cruz give THAT speech in El Paso!
Liberals like Mary Sanchez are susceptable to projection and confirmation bias in their analysis of political (and other) activities.
Cruz isn’t trying to “win” the Hispanic vote. He’s:
1 trying to peel off enough Hispanic votes to matter and
2 trying to demonstrate to middle of the road voters that he’s not anti immigrant/Hispanic.
Mary Sanchez is right. Latinos will never 'do a Baltimore' - - and someday Cruz will be right - they'll stand with us.
Ted Cruz Ping! I dare say, Mary Sanchez is WRONG. When the average Latino/Latina goes into that voting booth and they have the chance to vote for the first Hispanic President of the United States, trust me many will pull that lever for Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. You can take it to the bank!
I’ve read the article previously. It has been posted before. All it shows is Cruz’s position on immigration is what it has always been and is backed up by the amendment he offered in 2013. No path to citizenship. He would grant legal status in the form of work permits, which are temporary and have to be renewed. I have heard him also say that no permits would be granted to anyone who has broken other laws.
Cruz is consistent on immigration unlike Walker, Rubio, and Huckabee. Bush is consistently wrong, as is Graham.