Hispanic Conservatives: Cruz "Perhaps Worse" Than Trump
LAS VEGAS — After meeting with Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, Hispanic conservative leaders are expressing concern that the Texas senator is in favor of "self-deportation," an immigration position that helped defeat the last Republican nominee.
Speaking with reporters Monday ahead of the fifth GOP debate, an influential group of Latino Republicans said campaign officials impressed upon them in a closed-door meeting that Cruz supports "attrition through enforcement." That view, one of the leaders said, assumes that once certain enforcement measures are put in place, "there'll be no need for legalization because there will be no undocumented immigrants in the country."
"They don't like to use the term self-deportation, but for all intents and purposes, that's really what self-deportation means," said Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the American Principles Project's Latino Partnership. "So we learned today, to our dismay, that Sen. Cruz believes in attrition through enforcement, or ... no legalization whatsoever."
The position, Aguilar later told reporters, is "perhaps even worse" than Donald Trump's plan for dealing with people already in the country illegally. The group has already said it could not support Trump as the GOP nominee due to his hardline immigration proposals, which have been characterized as amounting to mass deportation.
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