Trump and Cruz are miles apart on legal immigration.
Cruz has championed an expansion of legal immigration, arguing it would help the economy. During the 2013 immigration debate, the Texas senator proposed an amendment to the comprehensive “gang of eight” Senate bill that he boasted would “dramatically increase” the annual limit on H-1B skilled guest worker visas from—65,000 to 325,000—a five-fold expansion.
It’s disappointing that Cruz’s transparent “VP-pick-me” gambit keeps propagating that “the two bonded over the issue of illegal immigration.”
Cruz also voted for Obama’s trade deal...a deal Trump plans to obliterate.
A huge red flag is that Cruz seemingly grovels for latino votes....consistently depicting himself as “latino” Yet his family bgrnd indicates only his father is Spanish; his mother is not-—has two nationalities, one from each of her parents. Cruz has been living large, seeking the spotlight off his last name for ages. Could be a latino “us against them” battle-cry lurking behind all of his conservative blather.
And while Trump has ignited America’s visceral contempt for politicians... voters will be aghast knowing Cruz is a Washington Insider. He has yet to highlight even one of these committees as a campaign credential......guess he knows that would put the kibosh to his aspirations.
CURRENT COMMITTES (Cruz web site):
•Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
•Subcommittee on Seapower
•Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation
•Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, Chairman
•Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
•Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet
•Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security
•Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
Committee on the Judiciary
•Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, Chairman
•Subcommittee on The Constitution
•Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest
Joint Economic Committee
Committee on Rules & Administration
BGRND (WIKI)-—Elected US senator in 2012-—Canadian-born Cruz was touted as “the first Hispanic or Cuban American to serve as a U.S. Senator” representing Texas. He is the chairman of the subcommittee on the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.[7] He is also the chairman of the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
Between 1999 and 2003, Canadian-born Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.[8]
Cruz was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, from 2004 to 2009.[12][13] While there, he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.[12]
Cruz, born in Canada, is one of three US Senators of Cuban descent.
Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.[15] On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%.[16] Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler in the general election on November 6, 2012. He prevailed 56%–41% over Sadler.[16][17]
On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. (WIKI excerpt)
NOTE Cruz recently renounced his Canadian citizenship.
Miles apart, because Cruz proposes more permission to H1B.
Earth to Liz, Earth to Liz. H1B is not what is sucking the welfare system down and pushing the crime sky high.
Your point being?
For goodness sake what a load of cr*p we are getting from the Cruz bashers around here. OK, so the Donald says he is going to end birthright citizenship. The crowd goes wild cheering their head off.
No one asks how in the h*ll is going to do that. Is he going to appoint himself dictator-in-chief and do it just on his word? Is he going to do it by executive orders like Hussein?
I say h*ll no to either one of those. No man should have that much power over me and my country.
Cruz is a serious person who thinks. He wants to do this and he is trying to figure out how to do it within our constitutional republic. He gives us real options that can happen and all the Trump crazies here immediately say “see, Cruz doesn’t want to do it. Trump is my man and it is going to happen because he yells it louder than anyone else.”
The Trumpies on this board are truly losing their minds.
That must be why no one in the D.C. cartel will work with him. /s