Ted Cruz Defends Stance Against Immigration Bill
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Tom Pennington/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Ted Cruz suggested his reluctance to support a comprehensive immigration reform bill is rooted in his belief that it gives unfair advantage to people who currently live in the U.S. illegally.
Interviewed on Fusion, the news network ABC launched with Univision, the Texas Republican told America with Jorge Ramos that undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be put on the path to citizenship when millions of legal immigrants have waited for years to come to the U.S.
Cruz said his own personal situation wasn’t the same even though his father came from Cuba and Cruz was born in Canada.
When Jorge Ramos suggested that Cruz might not be eligible to run for president one day because Calgary was his birthplace, Cruz bristled a bit.
He told the host, “My mother was a U.S. citizen by birth and so under U.S. law I was an American citizen by birth.” Cruz also suggested that it might be a matter for constitutional scholars to decide.
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