Ted Cruz to Hispanics: Economy Matters More Than Immigration

Though the Texas senator is the son of a Cuban immigrant, he's at odds with many of Hispanic voters on some key issues.

Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce discussion at the National Press Building April 29, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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By Heidi Przybyla

April 29, 2015 at 10:55 PM UTC

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Senator Ted Cruz said Wednesday that Republican Mitt Romney's rhetoric about working class Americans — not an immigration stance that is similar to his own — cost the 2012 Republican presidential candidate support among Hispanics.

On the same day that one of his potential rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, was touting a plan to provide legal status for many of the nation's illegal immigrants before a Hispanic audience in Cruz' home state, the Texas Republican defended his opposition to such a plan before a Hispanic business audience in Washington.