IS CRUZ lying on immigration?

I suspect his original view — announced when it was still “safe” on the far right to support legal immigration — is Cruz’s actual view. After all, it comports with traditional free market economics and decades of conservative, supply-side economics. I’m not alone in thinking so.

Republican operative Liz Mair, an immigration-reform proponent and founder of the independent group Make America Awesome! (designed to attack Donald Trump) thinks so, too. In calling attention to FWD.us’s attack she emails, “For my part, I remain convinced that Cruz is still a staunch supporter of more legal immigration, which is one of the reasons that I don’t particularly feel like crossing him off my list of candidates.” In other words, pro-legal immigration advocates — wink, wink — can assume he is lying now to get elected and will return to his original position once he’s got the nomination. Mair seems confident, she tells me, that “his current rhetoric is all for show.”

Related: “I studied nearly every word the Texas senator uttered during the immigration showdown. He may be the most spectacular liar ever to run for president.” “I’ve put it together in a timeline that runs from January 2013, when Cruz was sworn in, to the end of June 2013, when the Senate passed the bill. The timeline, which you can read here, shreds Cruz’s mythical account.”