The several hundred believers waving campaign signs that matched the stickers on the lapels and the T-shirts on their backs rose up, as if unable to contain their fervor. Now, suddenly, he’s cooling off. Hard to believe that’s not a quick reaction to Rubio accusing him of having essentially the same stance on immigration. But it looks like the choice may boil down to Rubio or Cruz.
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“What Republican in their right mind would support that?” Cruz asked. “Rubio!” shouted a few people in the crowd.
Cruz, meanwhile, said President Obama lacks the “will” to build a complete wall along the southern border and as president he would “build a wall that works”, along with tripling the number of border agents, increasing surveillance, and adding biometric screening at entry checkpoints.
A leading Republican presidential candidate has called for suspending the issuance of H-1B visa for six months to investigate abuses against the most sought work visa by Indian IT professionals.
“Your senator in fact opposed me”, Paul said of a border security amendment.
“There is considerable bipartisan agreement outside of Washington that we need to improve and streamline legal immigration so that we can remain a nation that welcomes and celebrates legal immigrants”, Cruz said in an interview with the Washington Examiner during a brief campaign swing through Las Vegas. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, addresses the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, Fla., November 13. “He is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally”. “If he’s changed that position, then someone has a right to change his position on the issue but he should be clear about that”.
Cruz announced his immigration plan ahead of a possible Senate vote next week on an immigration bill he’s been pushing to boost penalties for immigrants who illegally re-enter the country after getting deported.
“Actions speak louder than words”, Mr. Cruz said. That’s like Obama saying my position is the same as his on Obamacare [and] like the Ayatollah Khamenei saying my position is the same as his on the Iranian nuclear deal. “It is laughingly, blazingly, on its face false”.
Rubio described his retreat as strategic, not a change of heart.
Back in 2013 our fellow conservative, and long-time Rubio watcher, Florida political commentator Javier Manjarres of the Shark Tank and Hispolitica observed that, “What most people don’t know about Rubio is that he has always supported a pathway to citizenship”. Alex Diaz de la Portilla of Miami.
Cruz is trying to draw that distinction because he has nothing else to use against Rubio, according to Diaz de la Portilla: “What’s sticking out between the two?”
Marco Rubio has often noted that he had a simple upbringing. Rick Santorum has criticized Cruz this week over his prior calls for more immigrant workers and Trump has also called for new restrictions on green cards and worker visas – with both arguing that migrants steal American jobs and depress wages.
“I tried to pass something that I think was a conservative proposition to the immigration bill, that would have more scrutiny for refugees, for visitors, for students”. Ted Cruz, who have been sparring over a separate amendment that Cruz proposed to the immigration bill. They’re competing to see who can take the toughest line against immigration of any kind. “I think the first war was a mistake and I’m not for another one”. He was echoing a point made by Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz, but with an especially memorable phrase.
I nearly fell out of my chair when I read about Rubio’s argument.
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“They would have to wait in line behind everyone who’s applied before them”.
