Ted Cruz Quotes

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

On immigration reform you don’t get a bill without a path to citizenship .

The key here is to be fair to the 11 million [illegal immigrants], starting with the [2 million younger illegals] ‘Dreamers'....I’ve stopped letting 30 percent of the people who are mad about immigration determine how I behave. To those who feel like you should deport [younger illegals], boy, I couldn’t disagree with you more…. To the people who object to this, I don’t want you to vote for me because I cannot serve you well.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

The people who come across the border are hard-working family people. They have great values, and that's all well and good but they are also very, very consistent Democrat voters.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

I'm not anti-immigration.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.