[VIDEO] Ted Cruz: ‘The Politics of it Would Look Very Very Different if… a Bunch of People with Journalism Degrees were Coming Over and Driving Down the Wages in the Press’ 

UPDATE: the Video was removed, I’m trying to find another link to replace it. In the meantime, you can see it here, at The Corner, National Review Online.

Ted Cruz’s answer on illegal immigration tonight, pointing out that if illegals were coming over and stealing the jobs of journalists, we’d be hearing a lot more about the economics of what is really happening.

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Tom S. Elliott writes:

…Here’s his full answer on immigration:

What was said was right, the Democrats are laughing because if Republicans join Democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose. And you know, I understand that when the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn’t often see it as an economic issue. But I can tell you for millions of Americans at home, watching this, it is a very personal economic issue. And I will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande. Or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press. Then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation. And I will say for those of us who believe people ought to come to this country legally and we should enforce the law, we’re tired of being told, it is anti-immigrant. It’s offensive.

I am the son of an immigrant who came legally from Cuba. To seek the American dream. And we can embrace legal immigration while believing in the rule of law. And I would note, try going illegally to another country. Try going to China or Japan. Try to go into Mexico. See what they do. Every sovereign nation secures its borders and it is not compassionate to say we’re not going to enforce the laws and we’re going to drive down the wages for millions of hard-working men and women. That is abandoning the hard-working men and women.

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