With the terrorist attacks in Paris, look for immigration to play a greater role in the presidential campaign in the weeks ahead. That’s why it’s important to evaluate Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) misguided attacks on Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). The two 44-year old senators of Cuban descent are battling it out on immigration. Cruz, speaking […]
During last week’s Republican debate, Ted Cruz continued to gear his message toward the wing of the Republican Party eager to close the borders to immigration. Not explained by Cruz is how a massive border patrol expansion jibes with his allegedly small government instincts, or whether attempts to block foreigners eager for a better life […]
Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio both impressed audiences in the last debate. Senator Rubio’s positions on immigration are discussed frequently, but Senator Cruz is normally viewed as an immigration restrictionist – an unfair characterization. It’s more important to look at Senator Cruz’s actions when he offered amendments to the 2013 “Gang of Eight” […]
Donald Trump thinks big. He got his start when his father lent him “a small amount of money … around $1 million,” which he used to begin developing properties in Manhattan. Now he wants to be president, and Threshold Books has published his policy platform, “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again.” It’s hard […]
In last night’s Republican Presidential debate, Donald Trump argued that President Eisenhower immigration enforcement plan called Operation Wetback (Trump didn’t use that horrendous name) drastically reduced unlawful immigration in the early 1950s. He said: “Let me just tell you that Dwight Eisenhower. Good president. Great president. People liked him. I liked him. I Like Ike, […]