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Issue Position: Securing Our Nation's Borders

Issue Position

By: Ted Cruz
By: Ted Cruz
Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: National Security Immigration

Ted Cruz has worked to strengthen border security and help ensure that America remains a nation of laws. Among other efforts, he has worked on efforts to increase penalties for felons who enter the country illegally.

Authored a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of 10 states in Lopez v. Gonzales, urging the strictest enforcement of laws punishing those with prior felony convictions who entered the country illegally.


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