Jeff Sessions: Without Ted Cruz, Amnesty Would Have Passed In 2013 w/ video
Sen. Jeff Sessions gave a full-throated defense of Sen. Ted Cruz at an event Friday in Daphne, Alabama. Cruz is facing attacks from Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and others over technical issues regarding amendments to a 2013 immigation reform bill which never passed.
"People need to remember this, because this election is going to decide, the crowd who pushed that bill," Sessions said. "Will they be in the White House, and allowed to push their agenda, or will we have somebody else?"......
Neither Sessions, or anyone at that time was opposing legalization of illegals, provided they were barred from citizenship and this legalization happened after the border is secured.
The whole fight about the Gang of Eight and Cruz supposedly "being there" and fighting is really all quite irrelevant, because the fight was never about legalization. It was about an "amnesty" defined as "a pathway to citizenship". Even Rush Limbaugh supported legalization at that time:
"I have never said, whatever number are here illegally, "Round 'em up and deport 'em." It isn't realistic. We have to stop the influx. So you can't pose a question to me, "Okay, Mr. Limbaugh, after we secure the borders..." the borders are key. And then we come up with a plan, I could give you two or three of them that would help legalize these people if they're willing to assimilate. We don't want a Balkanized America, and that's what this is leading to. It's just a matter of following the law"
Cruz is relying on this confusion between a fight against amnesty vs. support for legalization in order to lie to his supporters, since Cruz actually supported legalization, calling it part of "common sense immigration reform," even after the gang of eight fight was over.
Cruz is lying to his supporters, and his supporters on this website refuse to acknowledge it, even as they squeeze and gnaw on every word that comes out of Trump's mouth.
Sessions is undoubtedly waiting for Cruz to crater further, and will endorse TRUMP, with whom he is already in counsel, on the illegal invader issue.
Sessions positively had stars in his eyes appearing with TRUMP at the microphone, at the Alabama rally with a crowd of 15,000 Alabama voters.