Texas Freshman Senator, Ted Cruz, was on the Sean Hannity radio show today talking about immigration reform efforts being pushed in the US Senate by Harry Reid and President Obama.
 
According to Cruz, both Reid and Obama are purposely pushing reforms designed to lose in the House of Representatives. This loss then can be used as a political sledgehammer to beat up the republicans with in the 2014 and 2016 elections.
 
Two of the critical issues that are apparently a red line for many members of both the House and Senate are secure borders and pathways to citizenship.
 
A key issue for Senators trying to find a way to craft immigration reform is to make sure our borders are secure first, before any other issues of immigration are addressed. But it seems President Obama, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer think our borders are secure enough and want to force an immigration package through that does not really address a verifiable secure borders provision.  To many politicians that will make anything coming out of the Senate, DOA for immigration reform when it reaches the House of Representatives.
 
The hypocrite Senator Schumer, couldn’t have been caught at a more inopportune moment when he and Senator McCain recently stood in front of the border fence in Arizona for photo ops.  Just when the pictures were being taken, an alien from Mexico climbed over the fence and entered the US illegally. This could make Schumer the poster child for non secure borders.
 
The latest polls also show Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of having secure borders before any immigration reform is put in place.
 
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Cruz was adamant the type of immigration reform with path to citizenship Reid and Obama were pushing, would be unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who play by the rules. Cruz said that would be a slap in the face to legal immigrants and a tacit wink that it is OK to disrespect the nations laws.
 
Cruz went on to say if President Obama was serious about immigration reform, he would take pathway to citizenship out of the proposed immigration reform, then reform could easily pass…Perhaps a pathway to work permits
 
According to Cruz even a pathway to a Green Card would be unfair since that could lead to citizenship in five years and it would be considered a reward for illegal behavior.
 
Many Americans are also disturbed about the reported number of illegal immigrants in this country.  That number was reported to be up to 20 million towards the end of 2012.  But as soon as the Obama administration started proposing immigration reform, the number suddenly shrank to only 11 million. What are we to believe?