Breitbart -- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) launched a national petition on Thursday to stop the Senate Gang of Eight's amnesty bill and send Washington a "strong signal" of the grassroots opposition to the bill.
"This is urgent," Cruz wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "We must stop this Gang of 8 immigration bill, which would give amnesty to an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants with no guarantee of a secure border."
"The Senate debate is in the final stages and we need to send Washington a strong signal of the overwhelming grassroots opposition to this amnesty bill from Americans across the country," Cruz explained.
Cruz urged supporters to share the petition with friends and to "act now--without delay--to help us defeat amnesty and stand for legal immigration!"
Blog author's comments - Is Ted Cruz the only person making sense in D.C.? It certainly seems like it. The passage of the amnesty bill being pushed by the 'Gang of Eight' and the Democrats will of course mean the demise of the Republican Party. This is exactly what Obama had envisioned when this began.
As I have said before...the only bill that I think should be voted on and passed now is to complete the border fence and hire many more border patrol agents. Until the border is secure, immigration reform should not even be addressed. The Republicans in no way will benefit from giving the illegals amnesty. The majority of the Hispanic people will never vote for the Republican candidates.
If the bill that the Gang of Eight, the Democrats, and some Republicans want is passed it will also mean more of a drain on the government coffers (taxpayers) so it will be a loss for the GOP and the U.S. If the Republican Party stopped this bill they...in my opinion...would gain many votes in the midterm elections of 2014. This is because I don't believe the majority of the voters want to make the illegal immigrants legal. If they want to become citizens of this country we already have laws in place for them to follow.
