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Ted Cruz Talks Immigration With The Texas Tribune

Ted Cruz Talks Immigration
Roque Planas
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National Reporter, HuffPost

US Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, listens as Homeland Security Secretary testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 13, 2013, on comprehensive immigration reform. Cruz criticized Secretary of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel February 12, 2013, for not disclosing funding sources, leading him to suggest Hagel might have been funded by radicals. Cruz also said that if Hagel is confirmed, it will make military conflict substantially more likely in the next four years. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
US Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, listens as Homeland Security Secretary testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 13, 2013, on comprehensive immigration reform. Cruz criticized Secretary of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel February 12, 2013, for not disclosing funding sources, leading him to suggest Hagel might have been funded by radicals. Cruz also said that if Hagel is confirmed, it will make military conflict substantially more likely in the next four years. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — Ted Cruz has only been Texas’ junior U.S. senator for two months, but he has wasted no time propelling himself into national headlines.

His prosecutorial line of questioning of President Obama’s defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel — including insinuations that the Vietnam War veteran might have ties to foreign enemies — sparked comparisons to McCarthyism. His rogue style and discounting of so-called rules of decorum has thrilled his ultra-conservative fan base, which hates nothing more than Washington, D.C.’s business as usual. He has even been credited with giving John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas and the upper chamber's minority whip, either the political will or political cover (depending on whom you ask) to shift further to the right.

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