Updated: Dewhurst's "Amnesty" Attack on Cruz Stirs Controversy
Update: May 26, 4 p.m.:
Hispanic Leadership Fund President Mario Lopez said Ted Cruz has never held any leadership position with his group. Also, the group does not support amnesty, he said.
"If David Dewhurst wants to deceitfully lump us in with leftist organizations that actually do promote amnesty, then all he is accomplishing is demonstrating to Texas voters how intellectually shallow he is," Perez said.
Cruz spokesman John Drogin also confirmed that Cruz has never held any leadership position with that group.
Dewhurst spokesman Matt Hirsch said the campaign stood by the ad's contention that Cruz "helps ...
Comments (19)
Tony McDonald
As it turns out, Cruz isn't even associated with the Hispanic Leadership Fund and Hispanic Alliance for Prosperity (a group that encourages free market entrepreneurialism) has a statement on their website stating that they have never supported or advocated for amnesty. http://www.hapinstitute.net/
This attack ad is a desperate race-baiting attack by the Dewhurst campaign. I hope those responsible feel dirty for what they do at work when they get home at night. This thing is just scummy. It's not just a lie. It's a lie that is only being told because Cruz spells his name with a "z."
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yet, Dewhurst's affiliation with the KKK was not brought into question. :)
Tim Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perhaps the KKK immigrated legally?? Just one possibility :p
Brittanicus
Simplify illegal alien enforcement problem, by enacting it as a FELONY to enter this sovereign nation. This should have been run through our whimpering Congress long ago; instead they allowed pressure groups to influence them. This will not happen under a Tea Party Congress, that will stifle any new laws so illegal aliens can gain any kind of amnesty. Our laws are a travesty and are soft on punishment. Put businesses that don’t use E-Verify in mandatory jail, along by seizing assets and harsh fines. Award Whistle blowers who detect illegal aliens working in companies to ICE. Amend the Birthright Citizenship law so no children smuggled into the U.S. are only eligible for citizenship, if one parent is born in America or a naturalized citizen. This will discourage illegal migrants and immigrants arriving here as they have for decades, through neglect at our borders and other entry ports.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO ALLOW MORE POVERTY ENTER THE UNITED STATES?
Employment visas should only be granted to professional people and STEM workers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers to the U.S. in an expedited process. The Constitutional TEA PARTY is gaining in power and will unseat liberal Democrat-Republican pro-illegal immigration politicians, derailing open border zealot ideologies. Lastly we must oversee all elections, as Democrats are indifferent to illegal aliens voting, which is carefully hidden; surf the Internet for information on voter fraud and ID theft that has been gaining momentum in the last two decades. Read the latest regularizes by zeroing in on Florida.
Alabama, as Arizona and the 48 states are up against the wall of harsh forced unfunded mandates by U.S. courts. Every state is confronted by billions of dollars to pay for illegal immigration in public welfare. The cost to Alabama for Costs for Illegal Aliens as studied by The Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIRUS) it was $2.7 billion dollars owing to the growing illegal alien population. But of course nobody knows the true amount as figures for population and the costs to support these people are kept subdued. During the arguments between David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz about illegal immigration, a report of the latest Census data indicates Texas’s illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers more than $4.7 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated tax contributions of illegal immigrant workers are subtracted, net outlays still amount to more than $3.7 billion per year.
The annual fiscal burden amounts to about $725 per Texas household headed by a native-born resident. But the majority of Americans are well aware that according to studies of FAIRUS and other pro-sovereignty organizations, that annually the expenditure is well over $113 billion dollars. In addition organizations have completed their own studies, that if another Amnesty was enacted we would raise our U.S. treasury deficit from 16 Trillion dollars, by another 2.6 trillion dollars. Many groups and media aspire to offer information about the movement and costs of illegal immigration into this country, but much is not factored in to taxpayer’s outlay and intelligence which can be found at the websites of American Patrol and NumbersUSA.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney had better stick to their principles, and they promised the taxpayer that passages of new negative immigration laws will not be tolerated, but only those in the best interests of the people. Americans are frustrated with the draining of their money to subsidize any person who crosses the border, including the escalation of births to illegal aliens and then claiming citizenship when the annual figure is 400.000. Any thoughts of gaining passage of Amnesty by either party will condemn the majority of states to even more need for health care treatments, hospital inpatients for dialysis and serious surgeries all for free. These are more costs dumped eventually on taxpayers of uncompensated care from the central government. Awarding education for hundreds of thousands of illegal children, who can claim citizenship under a very shaky law, which is destined to reach the Congress thanks to Rep. King? In less than 15 years are schools are overrun by illegal children who cannot speak English, necessitating more time spent by teachers and therefore affecting the failing grades across the country in education.
Of all the politicians that must be thrown out of office, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada must go. Not only has he derailed a amendment to stop illegal aliens living in this country, receiving mostly fraudulent IRS child tax reimbursement, to the tune 0f 4.2 billion dollars, he has done nothing to halt the influx of foreign nationals occupying Nevada. The tired old lawmaker has guaranteed that those working in this country illegally will be sustain in receiving billions of dollars in tax reimbursement for children that are not even present in this country. He is responsible for stopping ICE from raiding the building construction sites, but clandestine inviting mass illegal aliens into the state. The TEA PARTY must adjoin to seat a new younger Senator leader in his place, as he is just one of the liberal-Democrats, involved in wrecking this country’s economic return.
By passing another Comprehensive Immigration Reform would devastate our economy. ICE prohibited programs as the Democrats Dream Act, the Sanctuary policies has its costs, to all taxpayers and further encouraging the exploitation of the American low income worker. Less enforcement also has a negative impact, as Obama administration stands down from proceeding with large scale ICE raids or the deportation of all individuals. Years of complete indifference by both political parties to securing the borders, interior ‘seek and detain’ has allowed large influxes of criminal illegal aliens, with many reentering time and time again. The fact that illegal alien expectant females are procuring even more billions of dollars in education and schooling for their children, if once stepping on to U.S. soil, or disguising their pregnancy when alighting from aircraft, with a design to take advantage of the ‘Birthright Citizenship’ law badly manipulated from its original intent.
There are obstacles in Congress by both sides of the aisle, but even so 59 bipartisan sponsors to amend this law. Similar is to mandate the very controversial E-verify bill, that instead of voluntary for businesses, so it becomes the rule of the land. That every business, no matter how large and small must authenticate their workers, showing they are eligible to work in the United States. This is a very strength of every voter, to stop the continuation of these wrongly enacted laws, to amend Birthright Citizenship, so one parent must be a U.S. citizen, by birth or naturalization. All voters must fight back and demand from your Senator or House Representative that E-verify must be implemented permanently and Birthright citizenship be amended.
Neither new law costs money, but will save absolutely billions in YOUR taxes. The controversial publicity around ‘Chipotle’ is typical of businesses that think they are above the law, when hiring workers. Cheap labor is for profiteers, who have no conscious hiring foreigners, when there are thousands of legal Hispanics who would in this recession; jump at a chance of a job? As an addition ‘Secure Communities’ is now a mandatory law, so all suspects taken into custody will have their fingerprints sent to Homeland Security and ICE. But we must push the idiots in Washington, to pass mandated E-Verify and the amendment to the Birthright Citizenship Act.
E-Verify as nationwide push of enforcement have a 98 % successful program, that detects foreign labor and unable to verify, they will start to expedite departure to their home countries. All these policies, rules and regulations is the agenda of the monumental growth of the Constitutional TEA PARTY splinter group of the Republican Party. Both entrenched parties are nervous of this rise of a national party, which they cannot control.
Janet Thomas
First let me say, I am a Cruz supporter. Cruz may not be associated with HAPI now (I don't know about the Hispanic Leadership Fund), but he was a board member not long ago (that is by his own admission). The group may say they're against amnesty, but they are in favor of comprehensive immigration reform (which is just a fancy word for amnesty), a guest worker program and the DREAM Act. During the last legislative session, Paul Workman sponsored a guest worker bill and HAPI sent out tweets to their members asking for support of the bill. I believe Cruz has changed his stance on these issues, which is why I support him and voted for him and am asking others to do the same. I was in Austin 1-2 times a week during the last legislative session and saw what Dewhurst did to the immigration bills, he was one of the main reasons we lost the anti-sanctuary city bills and the other legislation.
Janet Thomas
First, let me say I'm a Cruz supporter. He may not be a members of HAPI now, but he was a board member not long ago (this is by his own admission). I don't know if he's associated with the Hispanic Leadership Fund. They may say they're not for amnesty, but they do support comprehensive immigration reform (a fancy way of saying "amnesty"), they also support a guest worker program and the DREAM Act. During the last legislative session, Paul Workman sponsored a guest worker program and HAPI sent out tweets asking their members to support the bill. I spent 1-2 days a week in Austin during the last legislative session testifying either for or against various immigration bills. I saw what Dewhurst did to the legislatiion, he was one of the main reasons we lost the anit-sanctuary city legislation and the other anti-illegal immigration bills. I believe Cruz has changed his stance on this issue and that is why I support him and voted for him and am asking other to do the same. I believe with Dewhurst in D.C. he will vote with the pro-amnesty crowd.
Norman Allen
My vote is for ABD: anybody but Dewhurst....
Meme Me
These groups that Cruz belongs to are based on race not nationality.
Race aka La Raza
You do the math....
Anya Khan
Tim and Tom, you two are idiots. Never stop the enemy from shooting themselves in the foot Lt Gov Dewhurst was destroying his campaign all by himself...but you two nitwits come up with a false klan claim and shift the focus away from his mistakes to lying dems. Y'all are grand examples of the doofballs that have kidnapped the dem party.
Del Murphy
I was in support of Dewhurst. Not now.
geri kile
Wow and politicians wonder why none of us trust them. Hopefully others will not vote for Dewhurst as I know me and my family and friends are going to the polls and WILL NOT!
Michael B Openshaw
Dewhurst's campaign ads have reached full saturation is bald-faced lies. He is NOT the kind of senator we need. Also, it is quite clear that Dewhurst would join the go-along gang of McConnell; Cruz would join the DeMint group that want to actually DO something about the budget and the deficits.
gypsy314 ne
I'm for Cruz but if he double crosses Texans with amnesty for illegal aliens he will be a one term senator. Anyone but Obama and democrats!
Meme Me
If? You mean when....
Meme Me
How do you think many of the Cubans became legal?
Very few were given asylum to stay here legally.
There is Clinton's "wet foot dry foot" and there is amnesty...
Cubans didn't originally immigrate legally though...
And just like Obama, I'm sure he has Aunt or two or three...
If you want to see a flood into the US, just open trade with Cuba.
V Marshall
@Meme Until 1995 virtually every Cubans was given a green card regardless of their illegal entry because Cuba would not allow exit visas nor did Cuba have a US consulate in Cuba to issue visas. Blanket amnesty started with the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 (you know back when we were saving the world from communism). So that would be - say it with me - Texan, Lyndon Johnson. Wet Foot/Dry Foot was an agreement that Cubans at sea would be returned to Cuba or sent to a 3rd country. Since that time, Cubans now mostly sail to Mexico and enter through Texas (just LIKE EVERY OTHER ILLEGAL) to avoid the risk of being sent to a third country.
Meme Me
and let me add to that...
The Cubans are not "sailing" to Florida anymore because the US has cut them off.
Yes, they are "sailing" to Cancun with coyotes and stolen jet boats.
They are coming to Texas through Mexico but I have read that they are being allowed to enter the US at our border with Mexico legally, entering Texas under the "Wet Foot Dry Foot Act" signed 1995 by Clinton.
Pickles Sorrell
Oh man! Somebody left the gate open at the State Mental Asylum.
Liz Theiss
The Spanish-speaker to impress "Latinos" calls the kettle black. This internationalist Dewhurst treasonist is one of the main players blocking immigration enforcement in the last session and is indeed his RAISON'D'ETRE. If you are just a regular citizen getting tired of being bled dry by illegal aliens and do not want to see the development of two Latin Americas because our boys fought and died and bled for many around the world who are now being cast aside for a new electorate to evolve into a feudalist society (just like where they came from), PLEASE CONSIDER STRONGLY VISITING THIS SITE. www.stopthemagnet.com
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