Cruz: Immigration reform shouldn’t include path to citizenship
MISSION — America’s broken immigration system needs tweaks, including more visas for high-skilled workers and higher quotas for legal migrants, but shouldn’t include a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, said U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking Tuesday during his first official visit to the Rio Grande Valley.
Cruz blamed President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats — who have advocated for creating a path to citizenship for people who entered the United States illegally or overstayed their visas — for stalling bipartisan border security and immigration reform proposals.
“I do not support a path to citizenship for those who are here illegally because, first of all, I think it’s profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules, who waited in line and came here using our legal immigration system,” Cruz said, speaking at the Anzalduas International Bridge. “But secondly, a path to citizenship does not have the votes to pass the House of Representatives. I believe the Obama White House knows that, and unfortunately their focus has been on trying to gain partisan advantage in 2014 — or 2016 — in the elections, rather than on solving the problems.”
Tuesday marked Cruz’s first official Valley visit since taking office eight months ago.
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