Cruz: Border security is national security, and you know one of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight bill was that it gave President Obama blanket authority to admit refugees — including Syrian refugees — without mandating any background checks whatsoever.
On the populist front, a key Donald Trump constituency, Cruz tweaked his border pitch to include language against "special interests" and "hedge fund millionaires".
Now increasingly anxious for his own safety, Cruz fled, crossing the border illegally as his identification documents were still with the army.
"You could do it broadly and say Kasich takes, say, north LA up to Oregon border, and Cruz does the opposite," the source said.
Sometimes Congressman Steve King a popular Iowa Republican who thinks the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling means people can marry lawnmowers and who has volunteered to help Cruz build a Mexican border wall subbed in for Vander Plaats, wielding a spoon to demonstrate that Cruz would be "spoon-feeding a little bit of Leviticus to the leftists," whatever that might mean.
Cruz prefers to focus on border security and defending the rule of law.
All of the Republican candidates are vehemently against migrants crossing the US border illegally, but Cruz, whose father is Cuban and who was born in Canada, stressed that it was "a very personal economic issue," one that elites would see very differently if their jobs were being taken by immigrants.
He is chief border guard in Cayo Cruz, where we were recently given rare access.
"Two thousand weapons come across the border every day," said Cruz.
After Cruz blamed the drug crisis on an insecure border, he blamed the insecure border on the Democrats, and some "cynical" Republicans, who favor immigration reform.
