O'Rourke said Guyger should be fired in response to a question related to the shooting at a campaign stop in the Dallas area. Guyger, who called 911 after the shooting, has been charged with manslaughter and was placed on administrative leave. He said the country needs to "do everything possible to secure the border," which can happen "at the same time as welcoming and celebrating legal immigrants." Law enforcement and 2nd AmendmentĬruz and O'Rourke also clashed on questions about law enforcement and the second amendment.įine and Jeffers asked the candidates to discuss a recent shooting in Dallas when Police officer Amber Guyger shot Botham Jean, an unarmed black man, in his home after she said she mistook his apartment for her own. The act proposed a path to American citizenship for immigrants brought into the country illegally as children.Ĭruz said his position on immigration can be summed up in four simple words: "Legal, good. The program protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children.ĭACA recipients, who obtain permits through the program, are often referred to as Dreamers, a nod to similar legislation introduced in 2001 known as the Dream Act. President Barack Obama in 2012 established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. He said that Cruz "has promised to deport each and every single Dreamer." O'Rourke said Texas should be a leader on immigration and should help, "rewrite our immigration laws in our own image," a thought he shares frequently on the campaign trail. The candidates also sparred on immigration and a question about whether DACA recipients should be allowed to have citizenship. Cruz said his version of representing Texas, "doesn't involve doing a photo-op in each county in Texas with reporters in tow." Immigration and Dreamers
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