Over time, making illegal aliens citizens actually meant putting illegal aliens on a pathway to citizenship that could potentially happen over time. And eventually they’ll succeed. “He strongly supported legalizing people that were in this country illegally”. He agreed to a framework that would have granted provisional legalization without insisting on security improvements first.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or { New York New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “It’s important – very important – not to overreact in situations like this”.
Cruz’s comment drew a response not only from Rubio, who said, “Let me be very careful in answering because I don’t think national television in front of 15 million people is the place to discuss classified information;” but also from Becca Glover Watkins, a spokeswoman for Sen. Is Cruz electable? Can Rubio be trusted on immigration?
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AAP spokesperson Ashutosh lashed out at Jaitley, asking why contracts were given to “front companies of DDCA office-bearers”. In response, Jaitley had said on Thursday, “I left cricket administration in 2013”.
“I don’t want immigration reform to fail”, the senator said in 2013.
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USA } military resources, disrupt planned Chinese investments and deepen a conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. He said at least 18 members of the security forces and civilians had been killed and 11 wounded, including two women.
“I oppose amnesty. I oppose citizenship”.
Opponents (and I’m one of them) of “comprehensive” immigration bills – like Rubio and Chuck Schumer’s Gang of Eight legislation, or Bush-era golden oldies like McCain-Kennedy – define amnesty as adjusting the legal status of undocumented immigrants so that they may stay in the country and work indefinitely.
In other words, as the conservative mood on immigration has hardened so has Cruz’s position. Democrats will hit him with everything they’ve got in portraying him as anti-immigrant. Cruz said he believes a more narrowly focused approach would more effectively target militants extremists.
And by introducing and amendment to block citizenship, it laid naked the partisanship, the hyposcrisy and the lies behind the proponents of the Rubio-Schumer Amnesty plan.
That’s what Baier’s after him for here.
“How are you going to make the sands of the Middle East glow if you don’t have the Air Force to do it with”, Rubio said.
“Legalization is the predicate of the Gang of Eight bill”, Cruz responded.
The same year, at Princeton, Cruz said, “I want to see common sense immigration reform pass…”
Cruz supporter and Las Vegas resident Bob Jacobsen, 85, linked illegal immigration to terrorism, noting that he and his son bought guns for the first time two days earlier to protect their family from violent extremists.
Except they forgot one thing.
Cruz has always been circumspect in his discussions of legalization. Around 54 percent of unauthorized Latino immigrants in 2013 said they identified with or leaned toward the Democratic party, compared to 19 percent who said the same of the Republican Party. “Thank you for allowing me to do it”.
“Your strategy was to put in this poison-pill amendment?” she asked.
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“He’s certainly tacking right to try to secure the hard-right base that he thinks will propel him to victory in the Iowa caucuses”, said Doug Gross, a longtime Iowa GOP hand who worries about Cruz in a general election. If Cruz trips up under the front-runner spotlight, it’s Rubio who could benefit. Granted, I did take a bathroom break, but other than that, I sat through all the gibberish. No one except political junkies will care at all about this when it comes time to vote.
