Ted Cruz: Can't touch this

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Has to be. You can't have it both ways.

Next thing you know, we'll find out that Haliburton is really responsible for Benghazi.


Don't be a bigger hypocrite, Walter.
 
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“I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization,” Cruz declared.

Well, turns out Rubio's campaign had been waiting for just such a statement. Cruz had not only supported legalization, he had sponsored an amendment to comprehensive immigration reform that would have explicitly delivered legalization (even as it stripped away the path to citizenship).

Ted Cruz tried to separate himself from Marco Rubio on immigration reform during Tuesday night’s Republican debate, saying he "never supported legalization." But Fox News host Brett Baier grilled him Wednesday on statements he made in support of Rubio's 2013 immigration reform bill, which would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Cruz did offer an amendment that would have allowed the undocumented to become legal but not to "naturalize," or become full citizens.

He now paints that amendment as a "poison pill" that helped kill the deal. But he was working awfully hard to expand the number of employer-based green cards and H-1B visas for a bill he was supposedly trying to doom.

And that’s certainly not what Cruz said at the time. From the clip Fox played of him at the Judiciary Committee in 2013:

Cruz Stumbles As Fox Host Grills Him On Immigration Comments In 2013
 
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Speaking of Hippocrates, Cruz's father was an undocumented Latino alien in Canada illegally when he was born. I'm sure that information is not in circulation down there in the Homeland of Freedom.
 
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well now we know who is the least patriotic of this bunch
 
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The problems continue to mount for Ted Cruz. It turns out that both his mother and father appeared on Canadian voter rolls. This story was actually known to Talking Points Memo (TPM) back in 2013.They shared the information with Cruz's office then. Cruz's office then said that appearance on the roll was not an indication of citizenship. TPM said they sat on the story because at the time Ted Cruz was not a candidate.

Talking Points Memo decided to to publish the story because Donald Trump made it an issue and Breitbart.com published an article about the same document TPM had shared with Cruz's office in 2013. While Cruz's office dismissed his mother's appearance on the list as inconsequential, as the article points out these are certified rolls in which each person appearing on the roll was interviewed and asked to validate their citizenship. Did Cruz's mother simply tell the electoral official she was a citizen of Canada even thou supposedly she was not naturalized?

Ted Cruz would have one believe that his citizenship issue is settled. It is not. A court has never tested or interpreted the 'natural born citizen' phrase in the constitution. While the Right has and continue to question President Obama's citizenship mostly because of geographical ignorance, questioning Ted Cruz's citizenship is actually valid.

Congressman Alan Grayson said as much. He said in no uncertain terms that he intends to challenge Ted Cruz's eligibility to be President of the United States in court. Grayson said it is not a partisan issue but a legal issue.

The words of President Obama's Press Secretary Josh Earnest are rather telling.

“It would be quite ironic,” Josh Earnest said. “If after seven or eight years of drama over the President’s birth certificate, if Republican voters were to choose Senator Cruz as their nominee, somebody who actually wasn’t born in the United States and only eighteen months ago renounced his Canadian citizenship.”

While the birther story never had real legs for President Obama's eligibility for President, ironically they do for the bastion of the Right Wing, Ted Cruz.
 
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