At tonight’s GOP debate, Ted Cruz went above and beyond to reassure voters that he does not support a path to citizenship for aspiring Americans. His views on immigration are antithetical to American values, and other GOP candidates share them:
WHICH REPUBLICAN HOPEFULS HAVE OPPOSED A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP?
|
Jeb Bush: “During an interview Wednesday with the New Hampshire Union Leader in Manchester, Mr. Bush was asked whether he supported a pathway to full citizenship. He replied, ‘No.’ ‘What do we do with the 11 million people here? I think the answer is earned legal status,’ he said.” [Washington Times, 7/8/15] |
Donald Trump: “Donald Trump would reverse President Obama’s executive orders on immigration and deport all undocumented immigrants from the U.S. as president, he said in an exclusive interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd. ‘We’re going to keep the families together, but they have to go,’ he said in the interview, which aired in full on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ Sunday. Pressed on what he’d do if the immigrants in question had nowhere to return to, Trump reiterated: ‘They have to go.’ ‘We will work with them. They have to go. Chuck, we either have a country, or we don’t have a country,’ he said.” [NBC News,8/16/15] |
Ben Carson: “CARSON: You also turn off the spigot that dispenses the goodies… DICKERSON: Right. CARSON: … so that people don’t have any incentive to come here. And then those who are here, you know, we have to recognize that we can’t just round them up, but we can give them an opportunity to register. I would give them a six-month period. And if they register and they have a pristine record, they haven’t been causing problems, I would give them an opportunity to become guest workers, not citizens, not voting people, not people who get goodies.” [CBS’s Face the Nation, 9/13/15] |
AND THE REST? THEY’RE ALL THE SAME.
When asked if he supported a path to citizenship, Marco Rubio avoided the question, responding, “It’s not a yes or no answer.”
John Kasich remarked that he was “not for giving anybody a path to citizenship here.”