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To: RasterMaster
Well Cruz never talked about a wall until recently., never talked about "tripling" border security til recently

That is a lie, and it is easily proven to be a lie. All you have to do is go back to 2011-2012 when he was running for the Senate. He was campaigning on the wall and tripling border security at that time, when Trump was still calling Romney mean for talking about deportation.

Here is an excerpt from an article about the last debate Cruz had with Dewhurst:

Cruz went on the offensive against Dewhurst on illegal immigration - a key issue in the state that shares the longest stretch of U.S.-Mexico border - calling attention to Dewhurst's 2007 support of a guest worker program for the state's undocumented immigrants, announced at a speech in South Texas.

Cruz called the guest worker idea more expansive than President Obama's decision to call off deportations for immigrants without criminal records who came here illegally as children - a policy that Cruz opposes and called "illegal."

Dewhurst, who has taken a more pragmatic approach to the issue of illegal immigration, avoided clarifying whether he currently supports such a program.

Cruz also distinguished himself from Dewhurst with his full-throated support for a border wall estimated by the Department of Homeland Security to cost $7.3 billion, or $6.5 million per mile.

Here is an excerpt from an interview with HotAir in May of 2012: I come from the perspective of someone who spent much of my adult life in law enforcement. In a post-9/11 world, it is absolutely unacceptable that we don’t know who comes over our borders. We need to do everything humanly possible to secure the borders. Electronic surveillance, a wall, helicopters and, most importantly, boots on the ground. If elected, the first thing I will do is triple the U.S. Border Patrol.

1,530 posted on 02/06/2016 6:24:30 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative

Cruz excellent on military readiness ROE.


1,567 posted on 02/06/2016 6:25:48 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: CA Conservative

Not sure your post was meant for me.


1,657 posted on 02/06/2016 6:29:14 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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