Newly elected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on Monday that he has “deep concerns” with a newly announced bipartisan deal in the Senate to reform the nation’s immigration system. Cruz took particular issue with a proposed path to citizenship:
“I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system,” said Cruz in a statement. “There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.”
