What stands about Jeb's immigration rhetoric is that he sounds about 100x more likely to make it his top priority if he wins

@BenjySarlin @MarkSKrikorian at what point is Jeb going to wake up & realize that the GOP base doesn't want amnesty?

.@topgun2448: if you want to wake Jeb up, then use your lawyerly skills to ask him tough questions: http://t.co/TMvfeaTngz

.@topgun2448: as an atty, you should know Krikorian isn't doing his job. We have to do the job he refuses to do. Ask Jeb questions, Rick.

Wink, wink. Cruz says he won't touch legalization issue until border secure, then notes he didn't block work permits in his Sen. amendments

.@BenjySarlin His point was that he wanted to show that Dems won't allow any reform without pathway to citizenship. It worked.

@RealBPhil So...he would not support work permits for undocumented immigrants and didn't then?

.@BenjySarlin the point is, his amendment had nothing to do with that issue

@RealBPhil Okay so to be 100% clear: If his amendment succeeded, he still would not have supported work permits for existing undocumented?

.@BenjySarlin 100% clear: Cruz's amendment had nothing to do with that issue.

.@RealBPhil @BenjySarlin Don't be silly. Cruz boasted to @NYT that his amendment "did not change the underlying work permit from" Gang of 8

.@kausmickey @BenjySarlin in order to isolate Dems insistence that citizenship be part of any reform. And that's what it did.

@RealBPhil @kausmickey yup, its a basic amdt strategy. like adding terror certification to iran deal doesnt mean members backs it otherwise

.@RMConservative @RealBPhil @BenjySarlin NYT piece (w/direct quotes) does not sustain Mr. Phillips' limiting gloss http://t.co/ClPvH1hkTQ

.@kausmickey @RMConservative he was very clear that his amdt isolated the citizenship issue

.@RealBPhil: Cruz's then-spokesperson refused to answer this 2012 amnesty question: http://24ahead.com/n/11062 Do you have the guts?

.@RMConservative: on 11/7/14 I told you how to stop amnesty: http://t.co/TMvfeaTngz Did you not do that because you support Obama? #teaparty

@RealBPhil @BenjySarlin FYI http://t.co/4ILeMI94tn

.@kausmickey Did you post the right video? Bc the one you link to absolutely proves my point that his amdt only dealt w/ citizenship issue

.@RealBPhil: repeating my 4/30 request, do you have the guts to answer this 2012 question for Cruz: http://24ahead.com/n/11062 ?

MT @BenjySarlin Walker hasn't said he's for lower immigration levels but his ppl emailed list of ppl who do fit that bill praising him// LOL

GOP aide says Thursday vote likely for bill disapproving/blocking exec action -- which the Dem Senate will promptly kill, making it useless

.@BenjySarlin It's not useless for the House (& in January the Senate) to go on the record as rejecting Obama's decrees as usurpations

@MarkSKrikorian Meant in the binding him to do anything sense

@BenjySarlin @MarkSKrikorian If #GOP is letting Ted Yoho write the Bill, we all know it's simple legislative gesticulation.

.@susanpai: your biggest helpers are do-nothing r/w leaders like @MarkSKrikorian, @AnnCoulter, and @NumbersUSA. You should thank them.

RT @BenjySarlin: John McCain is back to his old primary-year "border first" immigration approach http://t.co/mW6JLEa26M

.@TheJimHughes: @BenjySarlin is incapable of answering my #immigration questions: http://24ahead.com/c/65 He has no clue what he's saying.

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@benjy hi fellow #Benjy & @BenjySarlin too.. agreed, but do they've a moral responsibility to do so? &or is there moral value in not doing

.@bronk: @BenjySarlin can't answer this simple #immigration question: http://24ahead.com/c/65 He's just not credible (& see his name's link)

RT @24AheadDotCom: .@igorbobic: hey Igor, how come @BenjySarlin can't answer this incredibly simple question: http://t.co/Uf83G0mHv8 ? #mys…

RT @24AheadDotCom: .@igorbobic: hey Igor, how come @BenjySarlin can't answer this incredibly simple question: http://t.co/Uf83G0mHv8 ? #mys…

.@igorbobic: hey Igor, how come @BenjySarlin can't answer this incredibly simple question: http://24ahead.com/c/65 ? #mystery #ows #tlot

.@hunterw: 5 months later, @BenjySarlin still can't answer this one simple question: http://24ahead.com/c/65 Give you confidence in him? #oo