"...The GOP presidential hopeful opposes citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but he stressed Wednesday the need to celebrate and encourage legal immigration. And he noted his support for dramatically increasing the available number of high-tech visas. His remarks drew an implicit contrast with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a likely rival for the GOP nomination, who recently took a protectionist stance on legal immigration levels.
Cruz declined to directly answer a question from TIME about whether he would support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S., indicating a legislative fix should first focus on shoring up border security.
The freshman Senator said he believed there was significant bipartisan agreement around securing the borders and streamlining the legal immigration system. He criticized Democrats for crippling the recent reform plan in Congress by insisting on the “poison pill” of citizenship.
“They are treating immigration as a political cudgel,” Cruz said, “where they want to use it to scare the Hispanic community. And their objective is to have the Hispanic community vote monolithically Democrat.”...........
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I wonder where Walker stands on illegals?
I like his position on the H1B. But what about other legal immigration?
People having to wait 6 years in many cases.
I got denied trying to bring a niece here to Disneyland, yet they won’t do anything about illegals. They denied her because her biological Mother is in Canada. Stupid things like this.
Ted Cruz needs to abandon his schemes to massively increase the flow of alien workers into our homeland and follow the lead of Governor Walker on this issue.
I got called a “troll” the other day for posting the exact same thing and linking two articles! ;)
Cruz is going to shove “pathways” too.
Now my posting rights are “screened”.
Gotta love FR!