NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz,
R-Texas, strongly suggested the fix was in from the beginning by GOP leaders to
sabotage the fight against Obama’s amnesty, saying, “The cake was baked from
the start.”
The senator said that was evident to him
immediately when GOP leaders chose a bill funding the Department of Homeland
Security, or DHS, as the vehicle to try to stop the amnesty President Obama
granted to five-million illegal immigrants by executive order in November.
Cruz made the observations while speaking to a
small group of reporters across the street from the annual Conservative
Political Action Conference, or CPAC, on Thursday.
WND kicked off the conversation by asking: Why
won’t GOP leaders fight amnesty?
If the GOP leadership had really wanted to stop
amnesty, Cruz explained, they would not have attached the provision defunding
Obama’s amnesty to the DHS funding bill.
They would have attached it to a bill defunding
the Environmental Protection Agency, “or some other non-essential agency.”
He described such agencies as “hostages the GOP
could afford to hold.”
Cruz insisted GOP leaders knew all along that
rank-and-file Republicans would never vote to defund the DHS during a time of
increasing terror threats at home and abroad. Instead, he said, they chose a
strategy that was clearly designed to fail.
Cruz said he is optimistic in the long run but
pessimistic in the short term about stemming the flow of illegal immigrants.
He is pessimistic because “GOP leadership joined
with (Senate Minority Leader) Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pass amnesty.” Cruz was
referring to the move this week by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., to offer a “clean” bill funding the DHS, which meant dropping the
provision in the bill that would have defunded implementation of Obama’s
amnesty.
Instead, McConnell offered a separate bill to
defund amnesty, which is headed to near-certain defeat because Republicans will
not be able to muster the 60 Senate votes needed to avoid a Democratic
filibuster.
But Cruz said he is optimistic about the issue
in the long run because of the ever-increasing public support behind the need
to secure the Southern border.
The senator insisted, if lawmakers were to focus
on areas of bipartisan agreement, immigration reform legislation would “sail
through Congress.”
He identified the top two areas of bipartisan
agreement as securing the border and “streamlining” the process for legal
immigration.
But instead of looking for genuine progress on
the issue, Cruz said, Obama and his fellow Democrats have used immigration as a
“partisan cudgel,” purely for political purposes.
The senator implied Obama is not serious about
immigration reform and doesn’t really care about the plight of immigrants, but
would rather use them and the issue as a political weapon to increase his
power.
As proof of that, the senator noted how the
president had a “supermajority” of Democrats in Congress during his first two
years in office and could have passed any immigration reform legislation he
wanted, and Republicans would have been powerless to stop him. Instead, Obama
“did zero. Nothing.”
Cruz flatly accused Obama of using the Hispanic
community for political purposes, saying simply, “It’s wrong.”
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-spills-secret-of-gop-amnesty-sabotage/ Follow
Garth Kant @DCgarth
Comments
Voters handed the
Senate to Republicans in 2014 to defund Obamacare and stop excessive
immigration. These two issues are this economy’s wrecking balls. These two
issues destroy jobs. The Amnesty issue
is a “rule of law” issue that violates the balance of powers, but it is also an
immigration issue. Republican elites refused to close the border from 2000 to
2008 when they had a chance. They would
have done so, were it not for their campaign contributors in the Chamber of
Communists. Do you think we need a third party to represent the people ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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