So, what are the lies?
Cruz is a lawyer, and a pretty good one at that. His lies are grounded in plausible deniability and partial truths hidding behing generalizations that are mostly lies.
Here's one:
“I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization." - Ted Cruz
The first half of that is a blatant lie, and the second half impossible to gauge since it boils down to predicting the future.
On the Senate floor, on May 21, 2013, Cruz defended an amendment to the Gang of Eight legislation which would remove the path to citizenship portion of the bill, but provided for legalization for people already in the country. Cruz defended his amendment on the floor:
"And so I would urge people of good faith on both sides of the aisle if the objective is to pass common sense immigration reform that secures the borders, that improves legal immigration and that allows those who are here illegally to come in out of the shadows, then we should look for areas of bipartisan agreement and compromise to come together. And this amendment, I believe if this amendment were to pass, the chances of this bill passing into law would increase dramatically."
Still... "come out of the shadows" could mean many things. But Cruz continued:
"... and so I would urge everyone on this committee to roll up our sleeves and fix the problem in a humane way that secures the border, gets serious about fixing that problem, that expands and improves legal immigration and that does not unfairly treat legal immigrants by removing a path to citizenship but allowing as this legislation does a legal status for those who are here illegally. That would be reform that a great many people across this country, both Republican and Democrat, would embrace and I would urge the committee to consider the amendment."
Now we know what he meant by "coming out of the shadows".
So Cruz is lying about never having supported legalization.
Here's another one.
Cruz consistently attacks Rubio by saying
“that he (Rubio) would not revoke President Obama’s illegal executive amnesty on the first day in
office.”That's another lie hidden behind a misrepresented partial truth.
I've read the text of Rubio's Univision interview, and I understand exactly what Marco said.
Rubio responded that DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) had to come to an end at "some predetermined moment", but the he wouldn't do it immediately, with the reason being that there are people already benefiting from that program, who have permits, jobs and ere studying (attending school) and that it wouldn't be just to cancel their status from one moment to another. But he asserted that the program had to end "God willing" by Congress passing immigration reforms.
He said that DAPA was not already an active program, so he would immediately rescind that EO.
He also clearly stated, on Spanish TV, that the Dreamer Program (DACA) could not stand as permanent US policy.
So, Cruz lied again.
Maybe he should get a better translator.
