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Cruz pushed for doubling of immigrants, including Muslims, to 1.67M PER YEAR
The Washington Examiner ^ | 3/22/2016 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 03/22/2016 12:11:40 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Plans pushed by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz under the immigration reform debate in 2013 would have jumped the number of immigrants, including those from Muslim nations, by doubling green card caps and boosting temporary worker visas five-fold.

Under the Cruz plan, yearly legal immigration would have gone from 740,000 to 1,675,000.

Well before Donald Trump drew a line on Muslim immigrants following a wave of terror attacks, highlighted by Tuesday's deadly blasts in Belgium, Cruz's suggested changes to the so-called Gang of Eight legislation would have also created a family green card category and lifted the per-country caps on immigrants.

A lifting of those caps would have opened the doors to more Muslim immigrants from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other nations known for harboring terrorists.

Secrets recently reported that the administration has approved more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C.

Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.

Under the Cruz amendments, shown in full below, the yearly cap on green cards would have increased from 675,000 to 1.35 million, not including refugees and asylees.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: Uncle Miltie

Cruz “disagreed” with Trump on a Muslim moratorium. He’s still trying to talk around it today with a moratorium on Muslims from certain countries.

Truth is, Cruz is not an outsider he’s inside the establishment and changing positions faster than Hillary.


21 posted on 03/22/2016 12:22:05 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: napscoordinator; exnavy

Why don’t you go ahead and call us what you really feel...

In your eyes, you probably view us as traitors to the republic.

Should we be round up in camps if your demigod pulls one over on enough and takes office?

Maybe that’s too far...
but on the day of a terror attack, you call Cruz and us Isis lovers...


22 posted on 03/22/2016 12:23:00 PM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: napscoordinator

23 posted on 03/22/2016 12:23:30 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dangus

Cruz has the Bush’s on board his campaign. Ya get one Bush, and ya get the whole dynasty. That’s how the Bush’s work. Deal with it.


24 posted on 03/22/2016 12:23:41 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Bush sock puppet.


25 posted on 03/22/2016 12:24:27 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: AmusedBystander

Yep. Him and Beck.


26 posted on 03/22/2016 12:25:22 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I am so very blessed! Thank You, JESUS!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
The legislation never passed!

It was a "Poison Pill" to deny Rubio's Gang-of-Eight bill a pathyway to citizenship and voting rights.

27 posted on 03/22/2016 12:26:07 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Kenny

Cruz is nothing but a GOPe cheap labor express guy from the beginning. He is the slickest and most slimy of the entire bunch and he still has a multitude eating from out of his hand. He is not who he pretends to be.


28 posted on 03/22/2016 12:26:31 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: Durbin

Yes. We’re putting our fingers in our ears and screaming,

“LA LA LA LA TRUMPTRUMPTRUMP LA LA LA LA!!!!!”


29 posted on 03/22/2016 12:27:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (#JesuisCharlesMartel)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

To my sister-in-arms!! Thanks for your service. I dread to think that Nurse Ratched and her hedonistic spouse (in name only) will sully our White House again.

God help us.


30 posted on 03/22/2016 12:27:55 PM PDT by willibeaux (de ole Korean War vet age 86)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Really? TRUMP castigated Romney for the harshness of his tepid self-deport strategy in 2012. Both men were very wrong about immigration issues, and recently! Ted changed when presented with the reality of companies abusing the system. Donald changed when he decided to run for President.


31 posted on 03/22/2016 12:28:15 PM PDT by alstewartfan (CRUZ OR LOSE, AMERICA!)
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To: Kenny

Why waste time, is what I ask myself.


32 posted on 03/22/2016 12:28:20 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (#JesuisCharlesMartel)
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To: Kenny; All

Cruz sure did disagree with Trump on a Muslim moratorium! I remember it very clearly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU29vFYZBl4


33 posted on 03/22/2016 12:28:52 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I am so very blessed! Thank You, JESUS!)
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To: dangus

Populism is a dangerous thing.

It’ll burn you as quickly as it burns the other guy.


34 posted on 03/22/2016 12:29:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (#JesuisCharlesMartel)
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To: exnavy

Now comes all the insults from trumpeteers, how dare you doubt anything that promotes the messiah. There is a scary resemblance to the supporters of Lord Foul amongst some of the Freepers.


35 posted on 03/22/2016 12:30:04 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

cruise is a gw boosch style globalist, nothing more.


36 posted on 03/22/2016 12:30:29 PM PDT by 867V309 (It's over. It's over now.)
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To: dangus
I wish it was tried and failed. Alas, on this formerly conservative website, apparently 70% of the idiots and morons buy this crap... because they see it posted every single day.

Posted and kept as "Breaking News" too.

37 posted on 03/22/2016 12:30:45 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: connyankee

Several levels? What the hey are you talking about? How can you be bamboozled by a phony who gave Rotten, among many other rats, numerous large donations over the years?


38 posted on 03/22/2016 12:30:46 PM PDT by alstewartfan (CRUZ OR LOSE, AMERICA!)
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To: napscoordinator; All

Exactly. I was at the gas station one day. I was on my way home and I was in my military uniform. I stopped to get gas. An Arab gave me an uncomfortable look.

I don’t even feel safe in my OWN country!

We need Trump more than ever before in that White House! The rest of these candidates are phonies!


39 posted on 03/22/2016 12:31:40 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I am so very blessed! Thank You, JESUS!)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Why waste time, is what I ask myself.

You are not wasting your time. Standing against the current tide of misrepresentations and flat-out lies is no fun. But what is left? Do nothing? Then the lies win...as they already have with so many.

40 posted on 03/22/2016 12:33:19 PM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (The trump real estate school failed. But the FlavorAid stand is doing a great business.)
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