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Echoing Trump, Cruz Releases Sweeping Plan to Crack Down on Immigration
The Republican presidential candidate abandons his past proposals to increase legal immigration, but doesn't address whether the millions of undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. should be deported.
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In a sweeping new policy blueprint unveiled Friday, Senator Ted Cruz attacked legal and illegal immigration from all angles, proposing to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, increase deportations of undocumented people, and slow the flow of visas for foreign workers.
The blueprint mirrored key ideas in rival Donald Trump's immigration plan, such as a border wall, reducing legal immigration, and ending birthright citizenship. It comes as the Republican presidential candidate from Texas is locked in a war of words with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, whose support for immigration reform in 2013 included a pathway to citizenship for undocumented people.