Ted Cruz went through his laundry list of anti-immigrant proposals at tonight’s CNN town hall. And, more so than any other candidate in the GOP field, Ted Cruz has copied Donald Trump’s flagrant anti-immigrant rhetoric and adopted his hard-line anti-immigrant policies as his own. Ted Cruz:
- Opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants;
- Opposes DACA and the DREAM Act;
- Supported Arizona’s “Papers Please” law;
- Suggested that immigrants are responsible for the opioid epidemic; and,
- Seems to support self-deportation.
Don’t waste your time looking for daylight between Trump and Cruz’s extreme anti-immigrant views, because there’s no difference — and Ted Cruz is actively trying to run to the right of the GOP base’s favorite xenophobic demagogue.
Published: Feb 17, 2016