Ted Cruz Thinks Mitt Romney Should End Obama’s Deferred Action Policy

Mitt Romney has never said whether he would undo President Obama’s immigration directive to offer deferred action to DREAM Act-eligible young adults, only saying that he will work with Congress “to put in place a long-term solution.” But Ted Cruz, the Republican Senate nominee in Texas, insisted that the GOP presidential candidate should end the policy:

Asked by Telemundo whether Romney should reinstate deportations of young people granted deferred action, Cruz said, “I do.”

“I think it is without authority, and we’re a nation of rule of law, and it is not defending anyone’s freedom to be undermining rule of law,” he said of President Obama’s June announcement that his administration would grant work authorizations and deferred action — reprieve from deportation concerns for two years — to some undocumented young people.

Cruz said the U.S. should be a country that celebrates legal immigration “who follow the rules” instead of supporting the deferred action policy. That’s not a surprising position from a GOP candidate who campaigned on the fact that once fought to ensure that the state would execute an undocumented immigrant.

In his Telemundo interview, Cruz added that he doesn’t “think the Hispanic community is behind efforts for amnesty.” But a poll from Latino Decisions shows that Latino voters are very supportive of Obama’s deportation directive as well as the DREAM Act.