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Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won’t
BuzzFeed ^ | 1/5/16 | S/Kacynski

Posted on 01/05/2016 8:28:11 AM PST by VinL

Ted Cruz said during an appearance in Iowa on Monday that there’s a difference between him and Donald Trump on immigration.

The Texas senator, who is leading the field of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa according to the latest polls, was asked by a man in the state if, like Trump, he believed that all undocumented immigrants should be deported.

Cruz replied, “Absolutely yes.”

“And in fact, look, there’s a difference,” said Cruz. “He’s advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.”

Cruz is on a six-day trip around the state to shore up support for his candidacy. He made the remarks during an appearance in Boone. The video of the exchange was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday. Here’s a transript of the exchange:

QUESTIONER: Both you and Donald Trump are really strong on immigration, but he supports deporting all the illegal immigrants. Are you willing to say the same?

TED CRUZ: Absolutely, yes. We should enforce the law.

Q: All?

T.C.: We should enforce the law.

Q: Ok.

T.C.: And in fact, look, there’s a difference. He’s advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.

Q: So no citizens and all of them?

T.C.: So, if you read I have a very detailed 11-page immigration proposal that’s on my website it’s TedCruz.org. It was designed with Steve King and Jeff Sessions were the two who sat down with me to prepare it and it is enforce the law across the board.


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To: GrouchoTex

ALL applicants would be in the SAME line. Trump would streamline the archaic application process, by cutting out the bureaucratic system we now have.

In a sense, everyone would receive priority processing, compared to what we have now. This is another thing conservatives have been asking for, for years....for the archaic processing system to be fixed.


41 posted on 01/05/2016 9:24:06 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Duchess47

Please read post 39


42 posted on 01/05/2016 9:26:16 AM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: VinL

To get them out so they cannot come back in implies DEPORTATION.

So, is Ted advocating mass deportation now?


43 posted on 01/05/2016 9:27:06 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: VinL
The closest person to Ted Cruz (his wife) is all about open borders...It's not just talk it's a policy statement for Council on Foreign Relations

Heidi Cruz's work for the Council on Foreign Relations: Building a North American Community

Liars, frauds and hypocrites.

44 posted on 01/05/2016 9:27:40 AM PST by lewislynn ( You know you're a Muslim if everything offends you.)
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To: eastforker

The is no shortage of labor with millions of unemployed Americans. Period.

Pay them.


45 posted on 01/05/2016 9:28:08 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: Jane Long

That is what everyone is hoping would be the case for all people hoping to come into America.
I have not seen evidence that this is so.


46 posted on 01/05/2016 9:28:42 AM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: Duchess47
"If I were Cruz I would not start misrepresenting Trump’s policies."

No need for that. Trump's own contradictions and statements that reveal his core liberalism stand on their own, as Cruz shows here.

47 posted on 01/05/2016 9:29:38 AM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: Norm Lenhart

I said skilled labor and yes there is a shortage. There are many good paying blue collar skilled labor jobs being filled by illegals because of that shortage. I know first hand, worked with them every day.


48 posted on 01/05/2016 9:30:54 AM PST by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: VinL
Huh. Seems like a clear policy distinction.

Yup.

But Trump said it first. Or something.

49 posted on 01/05/2016 9:31:00 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: lewislynn

Does Heidi spell her last name CFRUZ?

Trump2016 - our last chance to save America & our Constitution.


50 posted on 01/05/2016 9:32:13 AM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: VinL

Ted is just doing the political thing here - Immigration is the #1 issue, and to win he’s going to have to go harder than Trump.


51 posted on 01/05/2016 9:33:31 AM PST by SteveSCH
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To: Jane Long; GrouchoTex
ALL applicants would be in the SAME line. Trump would streamline the archaic application process, by cutting out the bureaucratic system we now have. In a sense, everyone would receive priority processing, compared to what we have now. This is another thing conservatives have been asking for, for years....for the archaic processing system to be fixed.

Legal immigrants aren't being held up by an "archaic application process". Legal immigrants are being held up by the yearly quota limit.

The yearly quota limit dictates that x number of legals are allowed in each year. And x number of legals come in per year. There is no archiac application hold up.

52 posted on 01/05/2016 9:36:15 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Red Steel
Cruz dodges and weave. Won't answer the question.

All of these politicians resemble slippery eels regarding immigration. They try to reword and recharacterize things. Legalization or regularization or whatever new term, it is still amnesty.

Rubio is now saying he would be the toughest on immigration.

Bottom line -- after the next election, WE will not notice much difference. They will continue to do the same, ignore the law, allow defacto amnesty, and maintain the status quo.


53 posted on 01/05/2016 9:38:01 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: FreeReign

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54 posted on 01/05/2016 9:38:05 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: moehoward
"Huh. Seems like he needs to distance himself from his record."

Yes, he is running away from his record, which is something he is very good at. If the political head winds threaten his career advancement he displays remarkable flexibly on just about any issue.

55 posted on 01/05/2016 9:38:54 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: TomGuy
So, is Ted advocating mass deportation now?

Did you read what Cruz put in writing, in his plan?

He said full enforcement of the immigration laws through deportations and removals.

56 posted on 01/05/2016 9:39:09 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: CatherineofAragon; GrouchoTex

Trump has repeatedly said “They have to come back legally” - no arguing or misinterpreting that is there?


57 posted on 01/05/2016 9:39:21 AM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: eastforker

There is no shortage of skilled labor in America. There is a shortage of companies willing to pay employees American market value.


58 posted on 01/05/2016 9:40:08 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - An idea whose time has come)
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To: lancium
Here is another video of Ted
59 posted on 01/05/2016 9:41:02 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: VinL

Does Cruz think we are stupid? .”C.: And in fact, look, there’s a difference. He has advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.”
I actually oppose lying. Cruz ,you are losing me. Watch it!!


60 posted on 01/05/2016 9:41:09 AM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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