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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Ted Cruz targets sanctuary cities after California murder

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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