Included among critics was President Barack Obama, who called the Texas senator's idea "contrary to who we are."
"Any approach that would single (Muslims) out or target them for discrimination is not only wrong and un-American, but it also would be counterproductive," Obama told reporters in Argentina, which he visited after a historic trip to Cuba.
"I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Senator Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free," he said .... http://news.yahoo.com
