I don’t disagree about Cruz bona fides, with some exceptions, but we wouldn’t even be having this discussion, and Cruz would be a mere afterthought in the race with all GOPe candidates leading and the ones that have dropped still in crowding the field if not for Trump. Yes, there are other ways to help with stopping the invasion (stop the benefits, for one), but it’s got to start with a wall, enforcement of existing laws, deportations and I bet it doesnt take a few deportations before the exodus begins. All it takes is someone to mean what they say and do it. Trump beings that to the table without being interfered with by “paybacks” to the donor class, as Cruz would have to deal with.
If any think Trump can ‘stop’ the flow of human capital across borders, and the redistribution of populations into Western cultures, then they need to understand the dynamics behind this being played out on the world stage....it’s not going to be stopped apart from the US being isolated from the rest of the world........which might be possible but I doubt it as world trade requires otherwise.