The 2016 immigration fight we’d all been expecting has finally exploded into the open, with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz taking direct shots at each other over their respective roles in the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration reform saga.
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Rand Paul piled on Ted Cruz over immigration Sunday, saying his Republican presidential rival “should just admit that he changed his mind”. Ted Cruz, of flip-flopping on multiple issues ranging from immigration to trade to farm issues.
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The Texan, for his part, has always sought to position himself as tough on immigration and border security.
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“Some have a criticism of Ted and what he did in regards to this massive immigration bill”, said Sessions. Cruz also told a group of Princeton students that year, “I want to see common sense immigration reform pass….” “I think if people have real confidence that the law is being enforced, that we’re not going to have this problem again, that there’s real border security, I think you buy yourself more space and more flexibility in finally dealing with those that are here illegally”.
Cruz introduced a spate of amendments to that bill – including one to strip out the path to citizenship and replace it with a measure that would allow those immigrants to gain legal status but never earn certain rights, like voting. Cruz claims that amendment was meant as a poison pill to hurt the bill. “That’s why I fought so hard to defeat President Obama and the Republican establishment’s Gang of 8 amnesty plan”, Cruz said in the direct-to-camera spot. One of his talking points on the campaign trail is his belief that Republicans have a better chance at winning by running a very conservative candidate rather than someone who strikes a more moderate tone, like past candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain. Cruz is hitting back, saying his proposal was meant to kill the bill. Rubio replied by pointing out that Cruz once supported an amendment to that bill that would have given these immigrations legal status instead of citizenship.
“Of course I wanted the bill to pass”, Cruz said, before correcting himself. They were not telling the truth that what they claimed to be interested in was not what they were interested in. “And I think it’s a mistake”. Because it revealed that the proponents of the Gang of Eight were being hypocrites.
In an April Wall Street Journal op-ed with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is now Speaker, Cruz wrote: “There are multiple issues on which he’s tried to do these sorts of things”.
Central to the Cruz campaign’s new offensive Friday was Rubio’s Senate attendance record, which has already fallen in the crosshairs of GOP opponents such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The proposal would have replaced it with one that offered those immigrants legal status within the United States. “I oppose citizenship; Marco Rubio supports citizenship”. In fact, at the time, Cruz said he was doing it to show he could be reasonable and compromise. But there is a big difference between his vision of good immigration policy and mine and Senator Cruz’s. But in most polls, Trump’s national lead has stretched to new heights, with some recent surveys showing that more than 40% of Republican voters would support him today.
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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. Orrin Hatch of Utah, and Gang of Eight members Lindsey Graham of SC and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
