http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elect...ams-trump-amnesty-inconsistent-promises-made/ Sen. Ted Cruz is taking a stand against President Donald Trump’s proposal to allow 700,000 ‘dreamer’ illegal immigrants win the huge prize of American citizenship. According to Bloomberg, Cruz told reporters Thursday that: “I do not believe we should be granting a path to citizenship to anybody here illegally,” the Texas Republican said in the Capitol. “Doing so is inconsistent with the promises we made to the men and women who elected us” … “For some reason that to me is utterly inexplicable, we see Republicans falling all over themselves to gallop to the left of Obama in a way that is contrary to the promises made to the voters who elected us,” Cruz said. “We need to honor the promises we made. And that is what I am energetically urging my colleagues to do.” The pushback came after Trump casually suggested Wednesday night that he could agree to Democrats’ demand that the 700,000 illegals enrolled in the ‘DACA’ amnesty could have citizenship. Trump said to reporters: We’re going to morph into it, it’s going to happen. Over a period of 10 to 12 years, somebody does a great job, they’ve worked hard. Trump’s amnesty proposal is far smaller than the now-dead “Gang of Six” plan by GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake, and Cory Gardner. That giveaway would have provided citizenship to 3.25 million illegals and work-permits to their roughly 4.75 million parents. The 8 million number was announced by White House press secretary Hogan Gidley. The gang’s plan would also have allowed the 3.25 million migrants to import additional migrants as chain-migration relatives. more at link
Wow, well-played Ted Cruz. He got to the right of Trump on immigration, the issue that probably sank his chances in the primaries. It wasn't that he was terrible, it's just that no one could outflank Trump. Now someone just did.
Exactly I don't recall the exact moment but I think there was a point in time where he either hesitated or ceded this immigration issue to Trump. It seemed to have been a mistake. Maybe he was worried about some of his base in Texas.
And Cruz will bring up amnesty and obamacare, call him Donald Fold and win the primaries if Trump caves on amnesty. Winning turned into Folding. The art of the sellout. Cruz will also have him on taxes for the base.
Trump either is dismissive of this as a possibility or he is playing the democrats again. His WH advisors are probably telling him that a strong economy will trump any immigration problems. I just don't see it that way. He can't afford for 5% of his base to stay home election day.
Trump will have to make some concessions.. The owner of a company can 'my way or the highway' things... he cannot...
I can’t believe what I’m hearing about Trump on immigration. Has the real Donald J. Trump been kidnapped and replaced by Hillary who had very good plastic surgery to look like Trump? So is the purpose of the wall now keep conservatives in the United States? Did Trump make a secret deal with Democrats? If Trump plays nice on immigration, the Democrats will be nice to him? If that is the case, I wonder how that will turn out? Perhaps there is a more practical need. Businesses want to import cheap labor to maintain their current pricing and profit margins. This will tend to reduce wage inflation in a tight labor market. Not sure if I’ll miss Trump after he has been impeached and removed from office in 2019.