The Hill: Cruz: Obama holding the border 'hostage'
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said President Obama is holding border security “hostage” in exchange for amnesty.
“We should welcome a debate over how to secure our borders and reform the legal immigration system. That’s not a debate, however, that President Obama and his supporters are willing to have,” Cruz wrote in an op-ed for Texas Tribune. “Instead, they are devoted to amnesty — and they’re holding the safety and security of our nation hostage to get it.”
Cruz blamed the recent influx of migrant children being detained along the U.S.-Mexico border on Obama’s immigration policies, including his decision to defer the deportation of children brought illegally to the United States by their parents before 2007, also known as “Dreamers.”
“I'm unwilling to follow the president's course of spending billions on social services but maintaining the amnesty that will in perpetuity cause thousands more children to be victimized,” Cruz wrote. “I am opposed to the president’s immigration policy because I believe immigrants deserve better.”
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