New York Times
By Alan Rappeport
February 23, 2016
Senator
Ted Cruz, with his campaign in turmoil and under pressure not to fall
further behind Donald J. Trump, hardened his stance on illegal
immigration on Monday, backing
the idea that law enforcement should actively hunt down and deport
millions of undocumented people.
“That’s
what I.C.E. exists for,” Mr. Cruz said of the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency in an interview on Fox News. “We have law enforcement
that looks for people
who are violating the laws, that apprehends them and deports them.”
The position signified a notable shift from Mr. Cruz, who said a month ago that he did not support such an aggressive approach.
“No,
I don’t intend to send jackboots to knock on your door and every door
in America,” Mr. Cruz told CNN in Iowa in January. “That’s not how we
enforce the law for any
crime.”
The
Republican candidates have taken a stricter approach to immigration
since Mr. Trump started his campaign last year, calling for the
construction of a big wall along
the border with Mexico and the removal of people who are in the United
States illegally.
Mr.
Trump even went as far as proposing a special “deportation force” for
finding immigrants. Mr. Rubio, who once worked with Democrats on
comprehensive immigration reform
legislation reform, has backed away from that idea and now wants to
focus on border security.
But
now Mr. Cruz says that his rivals do not go far enough. In an interview
with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, he claimed that Mr. Trump and Mr. Rubio
are weaker than he
is on immigration because they would let people who were deported
eventually return to the country legally.
“Both
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio would allow those 12 million people to
become U.S. citizens,” Mr. Cruz said, arguing that they should be
rendered ineligible for having
broken the law. “I will not.”
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