Cruz fires back at Trump ‘sick’ attack

Donald Trump’s supporters have been eating up his antics on the campaign trail and now Ted Cruz is trolling the Republican front-runner with a classic character from the “Austin Powers” movie series that has a preference for eating anything, including babies.

“Of course you would”, Cruz told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

“Federal law requires that anyone here illegally that’s apprehended should be deported”, said Cruz. “That’s what the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement exists for”.

On Tuesday, Trump went after Cruz’s toughness, saying “he’s like a little baby, soft weak little baby”.

He then laid out a specific scenario for Cruz: a hypothetical father who “overstays his visa – and he’s got a couple of kids”.

Cruz responded in a unusual, if not entertaining way.

Cruz has previously responded to Trump with other movie/TV clips, including posting the infamous “jumping the shark” moment from Happy Days after Trump started losing it.

‘Cruz has been very clear: People who are here illegally should be deported. “That’s not how we enforce the law for any crime”, Mr. Cruz told CNN in an interview on January 10.

“We don’t have any system that knocks on the doors of every person in America”, Cruz told Tapper. We don’t live in a police state.

In January, Cruz said he supported deportations that came as the result of normal law enforcement practices, but was against any types of ‘deportation force, ‘ as Trump has called it, knocking on people’s doors.

Rubio, one of the architects of a stymied Senate comprehensive immigration plan that would have granted millions of illegal immigrants a path to legal status or even citizenship, said recently that he would not deport 12 million people in the US illegally, and would instead propose solutions to accommodate those who have no criminal record.

It’s tough but not entirely impossible to reconcile the two statements, at least in technical terms. How do we enforce the law?

But Cruz has taken a tumble since he beat Trump and the rest of the GOP field in the Iowa caucuses February 1. As he notes, that’s actually current law – once deported, it’s almost impossible to be legally readmitted to the United States – but what neither Cruz nor Trump explain is how they would marshal the resources for their mass deportations. When asked by ABC News if he still respects Trump, Cruz said he wouldn’t gamble his daughters’ futures on Trump and he “doesn’t know what the heck he would do” if he were president. Who pays for it?