Senator Ted Cruz explains why Democrats don’t visit the border
Senator Cruz (R-Tx) addresses Arizonans. Transcript.
SENATOR TED CRUZ (0:47:50): It is an absolute, manifest disaster. You all know that, you deal with it every day. In Texas we know that, we deal with it every day.
I was down at our southern border last week. I went there Thursday night, last week, I went to the midnight muster with the Border Patrol, and I said to all of the agents, thank you, thank you, thank you for your heroism. For defending this nation, even when you have political nincompoops who are undermining you every single day.
I then went out on midnight patrol with the Border Patrol, which I have done many, many times. Every time you go out on midnight patrol, within minutes you encounter groups of illegal aliens.
Karine Jean-Pierre said, at a White House briefing, “people are not just walking across our southern border, it’s not happening.” Now there’s a technical term for what she just did there. That is called a lie.
It is not a point of view, it is not spin, it is not advocacy. It is a brazen, flat-out lie. […]
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Over eight million have crossed since Joe Biden has been president.
One of the last times I was there, a reporter asked me, he said, “aren’t the policies of Democrats much more compassionate and humane on immigration than you mean old Republicans who want to secure the border?”
I just started laughing. And I said, you know who doesn’t believe that any more?
The Democrats.
Where’s Joe Biden? Where’s Kamala Harris? Where is a single Democrat senator?
None of them come to the border, and there is a reason for that. Because you cannot see what’s happening.
You cannot see the dead bodies. Last year, 853 migrants died crossing illegally into this country. Texas farmers and ranchers find dead bodies on their property every single day, they do the same thing here in Arizona.
You cannot see the children who have been brutalized by human traffickers. You can’t see the women who’ve been sexually assaulted.
You can’t see the more than 100,000 drug overdoses last year, seventy percent of which came from Chinese fentanyl.
You can’t see that and argue this is humane, or compassionate — it is a disaster.
And we’re seeing blue state governors and mayors, people like Eric Adams in New York City, declaring an emergency and saying illegal immigration is destroying New York City.
New York City has 9 million people. They’ve had roughly 110,000 illegal immigrants. Adams blames “that madman down in Texas.” By which I think he means governor Greg Abbott, frankly I was offended he didn’t mean me. […]
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My question is, if that’s true, what the hell do you think 8 million is doing for Texas and Arizona, and the rest of the southern border?
So I can tell you, periodically I bring my colleagues down. On Thursday I brought five senators down to the southern border to see, firsthand, what is happening. The Democrats, quite simply, do not care.
This crisis is man made. Joe Biden created it, Kamala Harris created it, and every single Democrat senator created it. And they could stop it tomorrow.
So, I cannot promise you that I’m going to change their view, but I promise I’m going to continue doing everything humanly possible to tell the American people the nightmare — the national security disaster — that they are creating.
The San Diego Customs and Border Patrol last week put out a written memo directing Border Patrol to be on guard for Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists crossing our southern border.
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BEN FERGUSON: And Christopher Wray changed his words this week. Saying, he’s terrified over this.
TED CRUZ: Yes. This was our last podcast. On Wednesday we played Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, his words before Congress where he said there’s a real risk of a Hamas attack in the United States right now.
And I am sorry to say, I think we are at a greater risk of a major terrorist attack in America than at any point since September eleventh. And as long as Joe Biden and the Democrats keep an open border, we are jeopardizing the safety of every American in our country.
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