Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has come out against a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients one day after it was revealed the president would be calling for one in an upcoming immigration plan. “I do not believe we should be granting a path to citizenship to anybody here illegally,” Cruz told reporters. “Doing so is inconsistent with the promises we made to the men and women who elected us.”
White House adviser Stephen Miller outlined the president’s plan in a call with Republican congressional staff yesterday. In exchange for a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, the president will call for $25 billion in border wall funding and end to both chain migration and visa lottery programs.
Cruz said such an initiative would be a betrayal of Republican voters’ wishes. “For some reason that to me is utterly inexplicable, we see Republicans falling all over themselves to gallop to the left of [former President] Obama in a way that is contrary to the promises made to the voters who elected us,” Cruz said when discussing immigration policy.
The White House has announced that it will unveil the details of its comprehensive immigration plan on Monday.