“You can’t carpet bomb ISIS if you don’t have planes and bombs to attack them with”, Rubio said of Cruz’s pledge to use “overwhelming air power”.
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Right from the opening statements in both debates, candidates seemed determined to scare the juice box set – and their parents and grandparents – right out of their bunny slippers.
But that wasn’t always the case. The bill would have allowed certain undocumented immigrants to gain eventual citizenship, but Cruz wanted to amend it so they would be blocked from naturalization.
“If the proponents of this bill actually demonstrate a commitment not to politics, not to campaigning all the time, but to actually fixing this problem, to finding a middle ground, that would fix the problem and also allow for those 11 million people who are here illegally a legal status with citizenship off the table”, Cruz said on the floor of the Senate in June 2013. I believe that gravity will bring both of those campaigns down.
Rubio was an architect of the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive immigration reform legislation. “We’re all the children of immigrants”. So I don’t think it hurts. “Does Ted Cruz rule out ever legalizing people that are in this country now?”
“He has attempted to muddy the waters”, Cruz said on the stage. Someone as pristine as that had better be especially pristine on immigration, the ultimate litmus test nowadays for RINO status among grassroots righties.
After Tuesday’s debate, three Republicans are emerging as top candidates.
In scoring the all of the candidates debate performances, Limbaugh said Cruz and Trump were the winners.
But Cruz got attention in 2013 for trying to thread the needle on immigration – supporting an increase in guest worker visas but opposing a path to permanent status – and even some conservatives turned on him as not fighting amnesty hard enough. Marco Rubio of Florida, who sparred with Cruz repeatedly over national security.
Cruz and Rubio have been sparring from afar over national security for weeks.
And that included legalization of those here without authorization.
“He was a supporter of legal immigration, as he said at the time and repeated to multiple media outlets for months”, Rubio said Thursday.
Those who suggest the Republican establishment will not support Cruz don’t know the Republican establishment very well. Republican opponents of the immigration bill, including leading restrictionist Senator Jeff Sessions, voted for the Cruz amendment as it was deemed by Republicans and Democrats as a “poison pill” to kill it.
But the biggest dispute between Cruz and Rubio is over the two-year-old immigration bill that would have given undocumented immigrants a path to gaining US citizenship.
Chad Sweet, the Cruz campaign’s chairman, described this portion of the campaign as “our Southern firewall strategy”. Under questioning, he said he was still open to a path to citizenship for those here illegally, “down the road”.
“The arguments back and forth about the issues don’t get us anywhere”, said Delavega, who identifies as a moderate who leans to the right. The “rapid” Chinese military buildup was the subject of a Pentagon report in 2002, according to the New York Times, although the incursions into the South China Sea are a more recent twist. “That is a profoundly cynical view”. Some have raised the prospect of Cruz eventually coming out in support of legal status in a general election, during which that position would be more politically appealing.
“I would enforce the law”, Cruz said, explaining that he would first deport criminals without proper papers. Which candidate will communicate a bold vision to destroy the Islamic State terrorist group, secure the border, restart our economic engine, restore the American image around the world, lower taxes for all and replace Obamacare with a sound health care plan? Once you give the left an inch with legalization, they’ll try to take a mile by making illegals citizens.
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For one thing, the NSA struggled to collect cellphone records via the old authority as the number of such accounts grew and landline accounts dropped.
