Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has weighed in on the bipartisan immigration blueprint unveiled this afternoon.He has ?deep concerns? about the central element, a proposed path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.
?I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system.?There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship.?To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.?
Texas? senior senator, John Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican and a onetime advocate of comprehensive immigration reform, sounded reluctant to set aside the security-first approach that he and most Republicans embraced after the last comprehensive push failed six years ago.
?There are many facets to immigration reform, but one that must be addressed first and foremost is our porous border,? said Cornyn spokeswoman Megan Mitchell.
On Fox News this morning, Cornyn himself sidestepped a direct assessment of the blueprint, which already had been widely circulated: ?Gotta pass both Houses of Congress, and we?ve got a lot of work to do,? he said, reiterating his call for ?presidential leadership? on the issue.
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