Does he extend this to "legal Population Replacement good"?
Good point.
The ‘blood and honor’ laws were legal in Germany.
H1-B is legal. It’s just generational theft, but its legal.
I think you are reading to much into it. He’s making a clear and succinct point in four words. I, for one, know what he’s saying. It’s actually kind of brilliant. Whenever you can communicate a lot, but with very few words, it is a win.
I don’t want bad immigrants, regardless of their status, so Cruz’ statement is insufficient.
Unfortunately, a lot of the talk we hear from the GOP on illegal immigration is for all intents and purposes a bait and switch. Unlike Democrats, many (but by no means all) Republicans are willing to see existing immigration laws enforced to some degree. However, many of them also want to increase guest worker and legal immigration quotas - which means that in a sense their "solution" to illegal immigration is simply making illegals legal.
Illegal immigration is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger problem, which is the demographic, political, economic, and cultural displacement of Americans by unassimilable Third World peoples. Just making sure that the INS dots every "i" and crosses every "t" on the right forms isn't going to solve that more fundamental problem.