Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said this week that the only campaign promise President Joe Biden has delivered on as president is the complete dismantling of the U.S. southern border.
Cruz made the remarks after visiting the border with former President Donald Trump this week. Biden also went to the border, but only after Trump announced that he was going. Biden visited a section of the border that has had little illegal immigration while Trump visited the epicenter of the border crisis that Biden caused.
“Joe Biden campaigned on open borders, he campaigned on saying, I will not deport people, I will not enforce our laws,” Cruz said on his podcast after touring the border. “And as president, that may be the only campaign promise he has honored. If you look at what is happening, at the end of the day, you cannot defend what is happening on our border.”
“When you look at kids in the eyes, if you have a shred of humanity, it horrifies you,” Cruz later added. “And understand, why does Joe Biden not go to the border? Because he didn’t want to see them. On this trip to Brownsville, did he see a single child who was sexually abused? No. Did he see a woman who was violently raped? No. Did he see the families of the victims of those who had died of drug overdoses?”
“In the last year, more than 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses. 70% of that has been Chinese fentanyl coming across our southern border. Did Joe Biden listen to those moms, listen to those dads, listen to parents crying over the loss of their kids? No,” he continued. “This was a photo op that was sanitized. Lysol was used everywhere. It was — it’s like a Potemkin village. It’s like a Hollywood set, designed to say we’re at the border. Nothing to see here. Nobody suffering, nobody being raped, nobody being assaulted, nobody dying. And it is profoundly, profoundly dishonest.”
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Joe Biden campaigned on open borders and promised that he would not deport people or enforce our laws.
As President, that may be his only campaign promise that turned out to be true.https://t.co/Cshf8UZIyI pic.twitter.com/lsCm9oDvtS
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 1, 2024