Wall Street Journal
By Harriet Torry
January 10, 2016
Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz says he doesn’t support sending forces to round up and
deport illegal immigrants, likening such a policy to “a police state.”
“I
don’t intend to send jackboots to knock on your door and every door in
America, that’s not how we enforce the law for any crime,” Mr. Cruz told
CNN in an interview
broadcast Sunday.
Mr.
Cruz’s top GOP presidential rival, Donald Trump, has called for a
“deportation force” to remove the roughly 11 million immigrants in the
country illegally.
“That
is not how American law enforcement works, we also don’t have people
going door-to-door looking for murderers, we don’t live in a police
state,” Mr. Cruz said.
The
Texas senator spoke up for the employment-verification program E-Verify
and the criminal law enforcement system to combat illegal immigration.
“Federal
immigration law says if we apprehend an individual who is here
illegally, they are to be deported. I will enforce the law,” Mr. Cruz
told CNN.
In
the interview, the Republican presidential candidate also hit back at
Mr. Trump’s suggestion that Mr. Cruz may not be constitutionally
eligible to serve as president
because he was born in Calgary, Canada.
“The
Constitution and federal law are clear that the child of a U.S. citizen
board abroad is a natural-born citizen,” Mr. Cruz said, adding his
Wilmington, Delaware-born
mother never voted in Canada and has been a U.S. citizen “all 81 years
of her life.”
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