To: Sen. Ted Cruz (TX-2)
No Path to Legitimacy for Senator Ted Cruz
Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, has offered two amendments to the Immigration Bill currently being marked up in the Judiciary Committee. His amendments call him for what he is: a heartless, bigoted immigrant himself who has no empathy or sympathy for the millions of people who have come to this country, as his family did, for the promise it held. Here is the gist of these two amendments:
"Ted Cruz will introduce an amendment stipulating that no legalization can commence until the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and the biometric US-Visit exit-entry system are implemented. They can have their amnesty, but the laws already on the books must be followed before that process begins.
In order to address the welfare point, Cruz will introduce a second amendment – just one-page long – barring all amnestied illegals from ever receiving federal, state, or local means-tested benefits or Obamacare coverage."
In other words, he wants to make it so difficult, that it is akin to no legalization at all.
"Ted Cruz will introduce an amendment stipulating that no legalization can commence until the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and the biometric US-Visit exit-entry system are implemented. They can have their amnesty, but the laws already on the books must be followed before that process begins.
In order to address the welfare point, Cruz will introduce a second amendment – just one-page long – barring all amnestied illegals from ever receiving federal, state, or local means-tested benefits or Obamacare coverage."
In other words, he wants to make it so difficult, that it is akin to no legalization at all.
Why is this important?
This petition is based on the extraordinary lengths that Senator Cruz will go to to advance his radical right-wing agenda. Many members of Congress understand that there are certain steps that need to be taken to create a bill that will bring closure to this issue facing this country. He does not favor any path to citizenship for undocumented workers, and now, to hedge his bets against approval of a bill, wishes to restrict implementation of any law to the completion of the fence and wants to prohibit any assistance to "amnestied illegals" should such a law go into effect.