Dallas Morning News
By Sylvan Lane
July 13, 2015
Sen.
Ted Cruz will try to use a Senate education bill to penalize cities who
don’t report all undocumented immigrants to federal authorities.
Cruz,
along with conservative Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Jeff Sessions,
R-Ala., filed an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act that would
redirect federal funding
from more than 200 sanctuary cities to state governments, according to
The Hill. The bill is bipartisan rewrite of the George W. Bush-era No
Child Left Behind Act with support from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
and the immigration amendment could ruin Democratic
support for the bill
“It
doesn’t make any sense for our cities to be harboring violent
criminals,” Cruz told Fox News on Thursday, “and it doesn’t make sense
for the federal government to
be releasing violent criminals.”
Republicans
are speaking out against sanctuary cities after 32-year-old Kathryn
Steinle was allegedly shot and killed in San Francisco by an
undocumented immigrant who
had already been deported five times.
Cruz,
Sen. John Cornyn joined a letter from six other GOP senators to
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. They question federal
immigration enforcement priorities
how they are applied.
Amazon bolsters Cruz book claim against NYT
The campaign gods have smiled favorably upon Cruz.
Online
retailer Amazon told Politico on Sunday that its found no evidence of
the “strategic bulk sales” the New York Times claimed it found when it
decided to keep Cruz’s
memoir “A Time for Truth” off its bestseller list.
“As
of yesterday, ‘A Time for Truth’ was the number 13 bestselling book,
and there is no evidence of unusual bulk purchase activity in our sales
data,” Sarah Gelman, Amazon’s
director of press relations, said in an email to Politico.
Cruz
and book publisher Harper Collins also rebuked the Times’ claim, and
the episode is becoming political ambrosia for the senator’s
presidential run. His communications
team is pouncing on the opportunity to call out the Times, a common
target in the conservative political world for its coverage, but not
usually its bestseller list
“If
it lied deliberately—if the Times tried to slander the character of
Senator Cruz and his publisher, knowing the charge to be false—then that
goes directly to the journalistic
integrity of the institution,” said Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler. “How
many other lies has the Times told?”
The Times maintains that Cruz’s book didn’t meet it’s standards for the list.
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