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Sen. Ted Cruz has a question for his lower chamber nemesis, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Where’s the white pantsuit now?
Yes, it seems that as the border crisis turns into a deluge, particularly in Cruz’s home state of Texas, there are no photo shoots of AOC in a lachrymose state.
Instead, hours before Title 42 expired, neither she nor any major Democrat wanted to draw too much attention to it — something Cruz addressed in Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.
“We are witnessing an absolute travesty unfolding on our southern border,” Cruz said in remarks delivered before the Biden administration shifted away from a pandemic-era policy that allowed for the summary deportation of most illegal immigrants.
“On Monday, we apprehended over 10,000 people on the border — the highest level in history. On Tuesday, we apprehended over 10,000 people on the border again, the highest level in history,” the senator said.
“Just in this location, in less than a month, we’ve had over 35,000 Venezuelans cross illegally just right here,” he continued. “Every day, just right here, they’re encountering 90 to 100 Chinese nationals.”
“They are being smuggled in by Mexican drug cartels, and I have to say I am angry because this is deliberate,” Cruz said, adding that the crisis has sprung from “a decision that was made by President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and congressional Democrats to open up the border to what is nothing less than an invasion.”
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