ODESSA — Rep. Beto O’Rourke [Democrat running against Ted Cruz for Cruz's U.S. Senate seat from Texas] has been barnstorming Texas, denouncing the border wall and the president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.
Sen. Ted Cruz has also made immigration a top issue, warning about liberals creating sanctuary cities to thwart federal enforcement efforts and joining the chorus demanding a wall.
Their views differ dramatically. . . .
“Let’s stop taking little kids away from their parents,” O’Rourke told a cheering crowd recently in Odessa, where the El Paso Democrat called for a more welcoming attitude toward migrants — people willing to take on “backbreaking work ... that no one here in the state or the country is going to do.” . . .
“A candidate for the highest office in the land ... described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals,” O’Rourke said. “And now that he’s in the White House, describes those young asylum seekers who have traveled 2,000 miles, fleeing the deadliest, the most brutal, the most violent places on the planet ... as animals, as an infestation, as a threat against which we must build a 2,000-mile wall and send the United States military.”
Cruz initially defended the enforcement policy that prompted the separations, blaming migrants for putting their children at risk by violating U.S. law.
[later]In San Angelo on Wednesday, Cruz was asked to explain his immigration policy.
“I can sum it up in four words,” he said. “Legal, good. Illegal, bad. We need to secure the border and stop illegal immigration.”
[Texans view family separation as bad policy by a 4-1 ratio, and as a violation of human rights by nearly 3 to 1, according to Quinnipiac’s latest poll.]
He also falsely accused O’Rourke as wanting open borders and amnesty. Cruz supports the wall (that Trump said the Mexicans would pay for). O’Rourke opposes it.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/06/11/ted-cruz-defends-family-separation-complaints-trump-border-crackdown-persist
After a hurricane of protests, Trump and Cruz changed their views and opposed separations.
Their original
positions show what they really felt. [cold-hearted, authoritarian and bigoted] They cared nothing about these children. Is this what America stands for? VOTE FOR O’ROURKE VOTE AGAINST CRUZ.
Like the MSM cabal, Beto is carrying the DNC's propaganda torch for his own political gain. Defaming Trump and Cruz is so much easier than offering real solutions to border enforcement.
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