Cruz reminds of Rubio's support for amnesty

Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz, who's coming in second place to Donald Trump in recent Republican primary polls for the presidency, called out fellow senator Marco Rubio on immigration and border control, reminding voters the Florida representative was a big amnesty supporter.

In an interview with Breitbart News, Cruz said Rubio broke a vow he gave to voters about not supporting amnesty when he joined the "Gang of Eight" and signed on to its nonpartisan bill. Rubio doubled down on his support for more open borders with his work to further Muslim migration in the "I-Squared" bill, described at GovTrack.us as an amendment to the "Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize additional visas for well-educated aliens to live and work in the United States."

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Cruz said Rubio was not giving due concern to America's security.

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"Border security is national security," Cruz said to Breitbart. "No candidate who has advocated amnesty, who has advocated leaving our border unsecured, who as advocated giving President Obama the ability to bring in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees with no background checks can plausibly claim to be an effective leader of national security."

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Cruz went on, saying politicians need to make the difficult choices, even if doing so paints them as politically incorrect.

"An unsecured border and millions coming into this country illegally with the promise of amnesty, no background checks whatsoever, is fundamentally inconsistent with keeping America safe," he said. "Each of us in public office makes a choice, makes a choice of where you stand."

Rubio, in his 2010 run for the Senate, told voters he was staunchly opposed to amnesty.

As Breitbart reported, he said on one occasion in 2010, while criticizing flip-flopping competitor Charlie Crist, the former governor who switched political parties to seek the senate seat: "I'm strongly against amnesty ... So I am not and I will never support – never have and never will support – any effort to grant blanket, legalization amnesty to folks who have entered or stayed in this country illegally."