Two GOP senators accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of &#8220;dereliction of duty,&#8221; claiming his inaction on border enforcement could serve as grounds for impeachment.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/sens_cruz_graham_to_secmayorkas.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Mayorkas on Wednesday as the nation&#8217;s southern border continues to experience a soaring number of migrant crossings.
“Your failure to faithfully enforce this nation’s immigration laws and willful blindness to the very real humanitarian crisis at our southern border amounts to a gross dereliction of duty and a violation of your oath of office,&#8221; the senators wrote.
&#8220;Historically high levels of illegal immigration and illicit drug trafficking demonstrate that our southern border is open for every kind of public health and national security threat imaginable. Despite the heroic efforts by the men and women of Border Patrol, who operate with very little support from Washington, D.C., you have failed to achieve any semblance of operational control of the southern border,&#8221; they added.
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RELEASE: In Letter, Sens. Cruz, Graham Raise Prospect of Impeachment for DHS Secretary Mayorkas <a href="https://t.co/4Q4XFy9EFZ">https://t.co/4Q4XFy9EFZ</a>
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&#8220;We have grave concerns about what this failure means for both national security and the health and safety of American citizens. These failures cannot go unaddressed, and your actions cannot be unaccounted for. The American people deserve better,&#8221; the letter read.
Despite claims from the Biden administration that the southern border is secure, the statistics from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) present a different picture.
A total of 2,150,639 illegal alien encounters by CBP on the southern border occurred in the fiscal year 2022, the most ever in a single year, <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the agency. The high level of encounters surpassed the previous year, which recorded 1,734,686 encounters in the fiscal year 2021, the second-most ever in a single year.
“Far from taking steps to address this crisis and secure the southern border, you have allowed the situation to worsen and pursued policies that have greatly exacerbated the problem while continuing to insist that ‘the border is secure.’ This is gross dereliction of duty and, if not corrected swiftly, could provide grounds for impeachment,&#8221; Cruz and Graham argued.
In addition to a surge in migrant encounters, the senators cited significant amounts of fentanyl seized by the CBP.
The totals included <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12,861 pounds</a> seized by CBP in the fiscal year 2022, a 219% increase over the same point in the fiscal year 2020. In addition, <a href="https://www.dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2,287 pounds</a> of fentanyl were seized just last month, enough to kill more than 500 million people.

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‘Dereliction Of Duty’: Senators Cruz, Graham Warn Mayorkas Of Impeachment Over Border Crisis

Senators Cruz, Graham Warn Mayorkas Of Impeachment Over Border Crisis

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Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) unleashed a tirade aimed at President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and Democrats on Tuesday, accusing them of playing the race card at the southern border because it was the only card they had.
Cruz joined Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jesse-watters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> for the Tuesday broadcast of &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime,&#8221; and he addressed the ongoing crisis at the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/texas-democrat-says-biden-admin-needs-to-turn-more-people-away-at-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S.-Mexico border</a> — an issue about which he said &#8220;Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t give a damn.&#8221;
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Can the 4.5 MILLION illegal aliens who’ve crossed the border under Biden be sent back?
Or is that just for rich Leftists on Martha’s Vineyard who the only time they&#39;re willing to see an immigrant is if they want someone to mow their damn lawn?
That’s the hypocrisy of the Left! <a href="https://t.co/XXAW2a4bAr">pic.twitter.com/XXAW2a4bAr</a>
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&#8220;Look, I know that Democrats have one card in their entire deck, and it&#8217;s the race card. They scream racist, racist, racist,&#8221; Cruz began.
&#8220;But you know what, President Obama, you know what, President Biden? You know what&#8217;s racist?&#8221; Cruz asked. &#8220;When Joe Biden sits by and lets four and a half million people cross into this country illegally and he doesn&#8217;t care. You know what&#8217;s racist? When Joe Biden can&#8217;t be bothered to go down to the border and see the little girls and little boys being sexually assaulted by international cartels.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what&#8217;s racist?&#8221; Cruz continued without stopping to take a breath. &#8220;When Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t care about the Hispanic women being raped by the cartels. You know what&#8217;s racist? When Biden doesn&#8217;t care about the dead bodies that the cartels leave on Texas farms and ranches across the southern border. You know what&#8217;s racist? That Biden will do nothing to stop the 100,000 fentanyl overdoses that happened last year.&#8221;
&#8220;That is grotesque — and you know what&#8217;s racist?&#8221; Cruz added one more example. &#8220;When all the lily-white folks on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard sit back and say, &#8216;No, no, no, we don&#8217;t want any illegal immigrants here. Send them to South Texas, they can deal with it.’ That is grotesque, it&#8217;s offensive, and even to this day Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t give a damn.&#8221;
Watters responded to Cruz&#8217;s lengthy rant by saying he hadn&#8217;t seen the Texas Senator get quite that worked up in a very long time — and Cruz explained that even though Biden had not been to the border and seen firsthand the women and children who were being raped and trafficked by coyotes and cartels, he had.
Cruz concluded by noting that when the illegal immigrants were flown into Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, authorities there had moved to &#8220;deport&#8221; them to a military base within 24 hours — and he wondered whether Texas could do the same.
&#8220;Can we send them back?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Oh, no, no, no, that&#8217;s just for rich billionaire leftists who the only time they&#8217;re willing to see an immigrant is if they want someone to mow their damn lawn.&#8221;

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‘Joe Biden Doesn’t Give A Damn’: Ted Cruz Flames Democrats On The Southern Border

Ted Cruz Flames Joe Biden, Democrats On The Southern Border

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Oh the <del>humanity</del> hypocrisy!
Republican lawmakers and conservatives came out in force over the weekend to slam Massachusetts Democrats for the hypocrisy of declaring &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; cities across the state and then quickly booting 50 migrants out of Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.
The Republican governors of Texas and Florida last week sent migrants to the tiny island and the front yard of Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; official residence in Washington, D.C. &#8212; and liberals lost their minds. The White House went so far as to declare it all a &#8220;political stunt.&#8221;
But here&#8217;s the thing: President Joe Biden has been sending illegal immigrants &#8212; thousands and thousands &#8212; into states across the country, often at night.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said the liberal outrage over the two governors&#8217; move doesn&#8217;t match the &#8220;ghost flights&#8221; of often underage migrants sent by the Biden administration.
&#8220;Those are Biden administration, taxpayer-funded contracts with a number of NGOs [non-governmental organizations] that are flying these people in the dead of night to all of these same locations, then it&#8217;s fine,&#8221; Waltz told <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6312380141112#sp=show-clips">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;But if you have Governor DeSantis or Governor Abbott or [Arizona] Governor Ducey doing it in the middle of the day when everyone can see it, then suddenly we&#8217;re up in arms and having a collective political meltdown,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;Either way, all of those services that American citizens and legal immigrants deserve are now being taxed by millions and millions and millions of people that we just can&#8217;t afford to feed and house and clothe,&#8221; the lawmaker said.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) also jumped into the fray on Sunday, defending the Florida governor.
&#8220;National Guard sent to interdict 50 illegal immigrants who disturbed liberals’ golf games &amp; Chardonnay at Martha’s Vineyard,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1570809582909526019">wrote</a> on Twitter. &#8220;Biden does NOTHING to address 4.2 MILLION illegal immigrants who have flooded small towns in Texas. Biden doesn’t care.&#8221;
&#8220;Last year, Martha Vineyard leadership said they’d love Martha’s Vineyard to be a &#8216;haven&#8217; for immigrants,&#8221; Cruz tweeted. &#8220;But with just 50 illegal aliens, it just took 24 hour before they deported them out of the Vineyard!&#8221;
Cruz also called Biden &#8220;the biggest human trafficker on the face of the planet.&#8221;
Others jumped in as well.
&#8220;Just 50 illegal immigrants entered Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, and within 48 hours the wealthy liberal residents rounded them up and shipped them off to a military base,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1570816990088163331">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;Any residents of Martha’s Vineyard who have a &#8216;Coexist&#8217; bumper sticker on their car are hereby required to remove it,&#8221; said Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
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Any residents of Martha’s Vineyard who have a “Coexist” bumper sticker on their car are hereby required to remove it.
&mdash; Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1571209792122650625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But it was comedian Dave Smith who brought the whole thing full circle.
&#8220;The Martha’s Vineyard thing might be the best and clearest example of what so many of us have been talking about for years,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;The progressive elites advocate for policies that they never have to suffer the consequences of. And the one time they do, it ends quickly.&#8221;
&#8220;They are against building a wall but they live in gated communities. They are for gun control but they have armed security. They destroy public education but send their kids to elite private schools. They support mask mandates but only their servants wear them at their parties,&#8221; Smith wrote.
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They are against building a wall but they live in gated communities. They are for gun control but they have armed security. They destroy public education but send their kids to elite private schools. They support mask mandates but only their servants wear them at their parties.
&mdash; Dave Smith (@ComicDaveSmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1571152262277505025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Conservatives Eviscerate ‘Sanctuary’ Liberals Over Hypocrisy Of Expelling 50 Migrants

Conservatives Eviscerate Liberals Over Hypocrisy Of Expelling 50 Migrants From Martha's Vineyard

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) urged Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) and Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> (R) to send illegal immigrants to three new liberal areas after DeSantis&#8217; move to send illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard this week dominated national news.
Cruz pressed the governors to send illegal immigrants to Nantucket, Massachusetts; Palo Alto, California; and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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Rehoboth Beach, Delaware next.<a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregAbbott_TX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a>
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Palo Alto, CA next.<a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregAbbott_TX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1570825833400659968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Nantucket next.<a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GregAbbott_TX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1570825705193340930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cruz introduced the <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20211019_stopthesurge.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stop the SURGE Act</a> last year to force Democrat President Joe Biden to establish 13 new ports of entry in communities across the country and mandate that all illegal aliens encountered at Border Patrol Sectors in Texas be transferred to these new ports for processing.
The 13 new ports of entry would be in liberal areas, including Block Island, Rhode Island; Greenwich, Connecticut; Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Governors Island, New York; Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Scarsdale, New York; Palo Alto, California; Yountville, California; St. Helena, California; and North Hero, Vermont.
&#8220;I am introducing this crucial legislation to alleviate the massive overload at the southern border by establishing new ports of entry in Democrat-led communities such as North Hero, Vermont, where Bernie Sanders spends his summers, and Martha’s Vineyard, where Democrat elites host their cocktail parties,&#8221; Cruz said at the time. &#8220;If Washington Democrats had to endure even a fraction of the suffering South Texas families, farmers, ranchers, and small businesses have had to face, our nation’s immigration laws would be enforced, the wall would be built, and the Remain in Mexico policy would be re-implemented.&#8221;
&#8220;My Democrat colleagues have hosted hearing after hearing on amnesty and federalizing elections while completely ignoring the crisis at our southern border,&#8221; Cruz added. &#8220;From my time this year on the ground in Laredo and Del Rio, it is abundantly clear that President Biden has all but abandoned our border patrol agents and processing facilities, and left Texas communities to fend for themselves. President Biden and Democrats need to step up to defend our southern border and support our heroic Customs and Border Protection officials.&#8221;
Cruz said this week during an interview on Fox News that DeSantis sending the 50 illegal immigrants to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard exposed the political Left as being &#8220;screaming hypocrites.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, the Democrats did not think it was a humanitarian crisis when we pulled over 50 bodies in body bags out of a truck in Texas of illegal immigrants who died because the smugglers let them die of heat exposure,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And yet, suddenly 50 illegal immigrants show up in lily white Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, where rich liberals and billionaires sip Chardonnay, and it is, it is World War III.&#8221;

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The Massachusetts state representative for the area including the leftist haven Martha’s Vineyard responded Wednesday to the arrival of 50 Venezuelan illegal immigrants by boasting of the island’s reception for the immigrants, prompting Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz to fire back with an acerbic remark.
Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis arranged this week for the illegal immigrants to be transported to the Massachusetts island known for hosting former President Barack Obama&#8217;s palatial home and being a playground for the Kennedy family.
After the move by DeSantis, State Rep. Dylan Fernandes tweeted, “Our island jumped into action putting together 50 beds, giving everyone a good meal, providing a play area for the children, making sure people have the healthcare and support they need. We are a community that comes together to support immigrants.”
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Our island jumped into action putting together 50 beds, giving everyone a good meal, providing a play area for the children, making sure people have the healthcare and support they need. We are a community that comes together to support immigrants. <a href="https://t.co/kG5bglhbLe">pic.twitter.com/kG5bglhbLe</a>
&mdash; Dylan Fernandes (@RepDylan) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDylan/status/1570223926155874305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cruz snapped back acidly, “Now try 4.2 million.”
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Now try 4.2 million. <a href="https://t.co/fvRmV0LGt2">https://t.co/fvRmV0LGt2</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1570490788085366784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lisa Belcastro, the coordinator for Martha’s Vineyard homeless shelter Harbor Homes, exhibited a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marthas-vineyard-shelter-coordinators-reply-to-migrants-arriving-goes-viral-they-have-to-go-somewhere-else" target="_blank" rel="noopener">far different reaction</a> to the arrival of the immigrants than Fernandes did. Asked on Thursday what the “most difficult challenges” were from the island facing the arrival of the 50 illegal immigrants, she responded: “The difficult challenges are, we have, at some point in time they have to move from here to somewhere else.”
“We cannot, we don’t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants,” she continued. “And we certainly don’t have housing. We’re in a housing crisis as we are on this island. And we don’t, we can’t house everyone here that lives here and work here. We don’t have housing for 50 more people.”
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Wow! This Martha’s Vineyard Democrat doesn’t seem very welcoming or progressive. 
“We don’t have housing for 50 immigrants.” 
Uh, don’t the Obamas have a 10 bedroom mansion there? That will fit half of them. 
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&mdash; Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1570498549057716225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Appearing on Fox News in July, Cruz referenced the 4.2 million number he cited this week. He <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=799169217890067" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>, “We’ve now had in a year and a half under Joe Biden, 4.2 million people cross illegally into this country; it’s the highest rate of immigration into this country in 62 years, and the explosion of drug trafficking — last year we had a 100,000 people die of overdoses just in my home state of Texas; we had over 1,600 people overdose on fentanyl.”
“And I gotta say that Joe Biden body bags, they keep piling up and up and up,” Cruz charged. “And what is causing it is this president, this vice-president, this attorney general,  refuse to enforce the law. When they catch a trafficker, they let him go. They follow catch and release. And they engage in a state of unbelievable denial.”
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marthas-vineyard-shelter-coordinators-reply-to-migrants-arriving-goes-viral-they-have-to-go-somewhere-else" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha’s Vineyard Shelter Coordinator’s Reply To Migrants Arriving Goes Viral: ‘They Have To’ Go ‘Somewhere Else’</a>

Martha’s Vineyard State Rep Boasts Of Welcoming 50 Immigrants. Ted Cruz Fires: ‘Now Try 4.2 Million’

Martha's Vineyard State Rep Boasts Of Welcoming 50 Immigrants. Ted Cruz Fires Back.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill to stop Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the U.S. as the upcoming opening session of the United Nations General Assembly approaches.
Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was joined on Wednesday in the legislation by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Joni Ernst (R-IA), John Barrasso (R-WY), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
“Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would already be excluded from entering the United States for the U.N. General Assembly if President Biden and his administration were enforcing existing statutes in good faith,&#8221; Cruz wrote in a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-introduces-the-sever-act-to-ban-iranian-president-raisi-from-entering-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
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RELEASE: Sen. Cruz Introduces the SEVER Act to Ban Iranian President Raisi from Entering the United States <a href="https://t.co/08bnGWXzkn">pic.twitter.com/08bnGWXzkn</a>
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&#8220;Raisi has a record of terrorist activities, including his advocacy for the assassination of President Trump and other U.S. officials. He is also listed by the State Department as ineligible for entering the United States because of mass atrocities he committed. Nevertheless, the Biden administration seems set on circumventing these restrictions,&#8221; he added.
The Texas senator also noted that the <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/sever_act.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, called the SEVER Act (Strengthening Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions Act of 2022), would also apply to a small number of other Iranians.
“The SEVER Act will deny entry to Raisi and the few dozen individuals who are hand-picked by the Ayatollah to repress the Iranian people and pose threats to American national security, to ensure they cannot get into the United States. It is well within the rights of the United States to deny them entry, and we absolutely should,&#8221; he wrote.
The legislation was introduced as the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts to renew a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran appear to have stalled in recent weeks. The agreement was put into place under former President Barack Obama. However, the effort was ended in 2018 after then-President Donald Trump pulled out, citing Iran&#8217;s repeated violations of the agreement.
In a related piece of legislation, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is also working to solidify U.S. sanctions against Iran to increase pressure on its government as it continues its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The Solidify Iran Sanctions Act targets Iran&#8217;s energy needs to help thwart terrorist operations or missile development.
&#8220;From brutal abuses committed against its own people, to its never-ending threats towards free and democratic societies, the Iranian regime has proven time and again that they are a rogue state with no interest in preserving regional or global peace,&#8221; Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-gop-working-together-make-iran-sanctions-permanent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> regarding the House version of the bill.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-escalates-enrichment-at-underground-nuclear-facility-now-has-enough-material-for-weapon-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in June, Iran is reportedly continuing to escalate its enrichment of uranium at its underground Fordow nuclear facility. U.N. experts believe that the nation now has the materials necessary to build a nuclear weapon.
The development was revealed in a nuclear watchdog report from the U.N. that Reuters obtained.
“IAEA inspectors verified on Saturday that Iran was ready to feed uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas, the material centrifuges enrich, into the second of two cascades, or clusters, of IR-6 centrifuges installed at Fordow, a site dug into mountain,” Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-prepares-enrichment-escalation-fordow-plant-iaea-report-shows-2022-06-20/">reported</a>. “Iran informed the IAEA on Monday that passivation of the cascade, a process that precedes enrichment and also involves feeding UF6 into the machines, had begun on Sunday.”

Ted Cruz Introduces Bill To Ban Iranian President From Entering U.S. As U.N. Event Approaches

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Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charles-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) vowed Wednesday that lawmakers would hold a vote to codify same-sex marriage in the coming weeks ahead of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm elections</a> in November.
“A vote on marriage equality will happen on the Senate floor in the coming weeks,” Schumer told reporters, according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/07/schumer-announces-same-sex-marriage-vote-00055243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>.
Schumer’s remarks come after some Senate Democrats suggested weaving in same-sex marriage language into a federal spending package using the Respect for Marriage Act that the House of Representatives passed, 267-157, last month, with 47 of those votes in favor of the bill coming from House Republicans. However, that narrative has seemingly switched back to issuing a standalone vote for now.
Now, Senate Democrats are working to garner ten GOP votes — enough to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold — to move it out off the Senate floor and onto President Joe Biden’s desk, who signaled he would sign the legislation.
So far, three Senate Republicans, including Susan Collins (R-ME), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) have previously told reporters they would likely vote yes on the bill. Nine others have marked themselves as potential backers, according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3632703-ron-johnson-wont-back-same-sex-marriage-bill-in-current-form/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>.
Collins has teamed up with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to sway enough votes from across the aisle, but has received pushback from Senate Republicans, citing religious liberty and conscience protection concerns.
“We are listening carefully to the concerns that have been raised by some of our colleagues,” Collins told Politico. “And we’re looking at an amendment that would strengthen the language in the bill to make crystal clear that it does not in any way infringe upon religious liberty. And it also would correct a drafting error.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he would vote against the bill, with concerns about religious liberties, adding that it would create more chaos for the court to disrupt same-sex marriages.
“This bill without a religious liberty protection would have massive consequences across our country, weaponizing the Biden administration to go and target universities, K-12 schools, social service organizations, churches, and strip them all of their tax-exempt status,” Cruz said on an episode of his podcast “The Verdict,” according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/06/ted-cruz-gay-marriage-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Texas Tribune</a>.
Cruz further noted that GOP members are pushing for an amendment to the bill that would ensure such protections.
Heritage Foundation research assistant Jared Eckert told <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/07/26/polygamy-seen-as-possibility-under-house-passed-marriage-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal Podast</a> last month that the House passed the bill as an overreaction to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Eckert argues that lawmakers passed the bill out of fear that same-sex marriage and interracial marriage are under attack, neither of which he said face any threat. However, he noted enshrining the bill into law could create unintended consequences that state and federal governments would have to accept.
“If one state — just one state — recognizes polygamy as a legitimate marriage or legal marriage, then basically, the federal government has to do that,” Eckert says.
Eckert’s comments follow an explanation of the Obergfell v. Hodges case, which allowed states to redefine the federal government’s traditional definition of marriage, adding that the point of federal law supporting holy matrimony was because it served as an interest for the welfare of American civilization. 
But if the bill passes, Eckert said it would “create a ton of problems,” similar to the concerns of Cruz and other lawmakers who are holding onto the sanctity of the God-given union between one man and one woman.

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Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) fired back at left-leaning MeidasTouch on Tuesday after they fired off a tweet claiming that he had called for the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-official-search-warrants-stunningly-broad-scope-gives-trump-room-for-legal-challenge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> to be defunded.
The conversation began with a &#8220;NEW UNDERCOVER&#8221; video posted by Lauren Windsor that claimed Cruz was on board with defunding the Bureau — despite the fact that he simply nodded along while the person taking the video appeared to be the one making all the assertions.
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NEW UNDERCOVER: Ted Cruz agrees to defunding the FBI, says there needs to be “a complete housecleaning that happens at the FBI.” <a href="https://t.co/w5aXCtAehH">pic.twitter.com/w5aXCtAehH</a>
&mdash; Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) <a href="https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1564652800893718531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I wanted to say, thank you so much for all you&#8217;re doing to fight for Herschel Walker and to take back the Senate,&#8221; the woman said, shaking Cruz&#8217;s hand. &#8220;And I just think it&#8217;s so important that you guys are actually going to defund all those IRS agents.&#8221;
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Cruz interjected, but the woman kept talking.
&#8220;But I think it&#8217;s imperative that you really have to defund the FBI after all the witch hunts that are going on,&#8221; she continued — and Cruz could be seen first briefly nodding and then shaking his head, a move that was described by Windsor as Cruz &#8220;nodding in agreement.&#8221;
What <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-five-host-says-if-sen-cruzs-daughters-were-raped-she-finds-it-hard-to-believe-he-wouldnt-do-everything-in-his-power-to-get-baby-aborted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cruz</a> actually said was as follows: &#8220;It is horrific the abuse of power at the FBI, and it&#8217;s wrong. And there needs to be a complete housecleaning that happens at the FBI.&#8221;
&#8220;Are y&#8217;all going be able to do that when you regain the Senate?&#8221; the woman asked.
&#8220;I think we need to fight to do that,&#8221; Cruz said, adding, &#8220;And we need to fight to have real oversight.&#8221;
MeidasTouch ran with Windsor&#8217;s caption comment, however, tweeting, &#8220;Ted Cruz wants to defund the FBI.&#8221;
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Ted Cruz wants to defund the FBI. <a href="https://t.co/ygkNUm5TWB">https://t.co/ygkNUm5TWB</a>
&mdash; MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1564653136933003264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But Cruz hit back, noting that what he had actually said he advocated for in the video was a &#8220;complete housecleaning&#8221; at the Bureau.
&#8220;Leftie Twitter is gonna lie — it&#8217;s what they do — but every word I said is true,&#8221; Cruz tweeted in response to MeidasTouch. &#8220;The FBI&#8217;s raid was a horrific &#8216;abuse of power&#8217;; there needs to be &#8216;a complete housecleaning&#8217; at FBI; we need &#8216;real oversight&#8217; from Congress. All absolutely true!&#8221;
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Leftie twitter is gonna lie—it’s what they do—but every word I said is true:
&#8211; the FBI’s raid was a horrific “abuse of power”;
&#8211; there needs to be “a complete housecleaning” at FBI;
&#8211; we need “real oversight” from Congress.
All absolutely true!
More: <a href="https://t.co/xKYPHGbjQi">https://t.co/xKYPHGbjQi</a> <a href="https://t.co/tlb5DU5Tjy">https://t.co/tlb5DU5Tjy</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1564664033675984896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cruz&#8217;s communications advisor Steve Guest hit back as well, adding, &#8220;Obviously, @MeidasTouch didn&#8217;t watch the video before tweeting. Instead, they&#8217;re just brazenly lying.&#8221;
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Obviously, <a href="https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeidasTouch</a> didn’t watch the video before tweeting. Instead, they’re just brazenly lying.
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1564664884016676864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Ted Cruz Torches MeidasTouch Over False Claim He'd 'Defund The FBI'

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocked Massachusetts Democratic senator and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren after a new book <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/12/ali-vitali-running-as-a-woman-in-2020-00051244">claimed</a> that following her third-place finish in the 2020 Iowa Caucus, she complained, “Everyone comes up to me and says, ‘I would vote for you, if you had a penis.’”
NBC News correspondent Ali Vitali states in her new book, “Electable: Why America Hasn&#8217;t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet,” that Warren complained to her on a plane following the Iowa caucuses.
Cruz ridiculed Warren on Saturday at the seventh annual Basque Fry in Gardnerville, Nevada, as he said, “We need courage responding to crazy town. I don’t know if you saw it this week: Elizabeth Warren told reporters that a guy came up to her and said, &#8216;I would have voted for you if only you had a penis.’”
“Now let me say two things about that,” Cruz declared. “Number one: That story is a lie. Produce this fictional person ’cause this human being does not exist.”
Referencing Warren’s infamous past assertion that she had Cherokee blood when a DNA test later <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1051899620643749888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">revealed</a> her to be between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American, Cruz asserted of Warren’s supposed claim in Vitali&#8217;s book, “That is not even 1/1024 true.”
In 1986, Warren claimed she was “American Indian” on a registration card for the State Bar of Texas.
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Here is the form Elizabeth Warren filled out for the State Bar of Texas claiming American Indian heritage. <a href="https://t.co/VwHifS7BCL">pic.twitter.com/VwHifS7BCL</a>
&mdash; Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmyEGardner/status/1092941590555971585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Vox <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/2/14/17012798/elizabeth-warren-speech-native-american-american-indian-pocahontas-trump">wrote</a> in 2018 that Warren had “consistently stated that her mother is part Cherokee.”
Cruz segued to the current agenda of the Democratic Party as he quipped about Warren&#8217;s penis story: “But number two: In today&#8217;s Democrat Party, how do we know she doesn&#8217;t? &#8230; How could you possibly know? ‘My name is Elizabeth, call me Bob, this is my beer.’”
He added in an aside that referred to transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who dominated women in NCAA events, “By the way, most Americans know this is ridiculous. Lia Thomas is a dude. He looks like Michael Phelps and has arms longer than anyone else.”
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Here&#39;s the video of Ted Cruz joking that Elizabeth Warren might have a penis. <a href="https://twitter.com/lawindsor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lawindsor</a> <a href="https://t.co/eZsQvVPD7Q">pic.twitter.com/eZsQvVPD7Q</a>
&mdash; David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidEdwards/status/1558849165500846081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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After the news of Warren’s DNA results broke, Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. issued this <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/411521-cherokee-nation-warrens-use-of-dna-test-inappropriate-wrong/">statement</a>: “Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven.”
Rebecca Nagle, an indigenous writer, echoed, “No native tribe acknowledges DNA testing as a source for citizenship or even claim to native heritage. She comes from a well-documented line of white people and so there is ample evidence that all of her ancestors are documented white people on the census rolls, by their marriage and birth and death certificates since going back before the Trail of Tears.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted Democrats over details in a reconciliation bill that would add 87,000 more IRS workers.
Cruz shared the remarks during a Senate floor speech this weekend that noted Americans are not looking for more IRS agents as an answer to the nation&#8217;s problems.
&#8220;There are a lot of bad things in this bill, but few are worse than the proposal by Democrats in this bill to double the size of the IRS and create 87,000 new IRS agents,&#8221; Cruz said during his Senate floor speech.
&#8220;I guarantee you citizens in every one of our states, if you ask them, &#8216;What do they want?&#8217; they don&#8217;t want 87,000 new IRS agents. And they&#8217;re not being created to audit billionaires or giant corporations. They&#8217;re being created to audit you,&#8221; he added.
Cruz also expressed concern over the number of estimated new audits under the newly proposed legislation.
&#8220;The House Ways and Means Committee, the minority has put out an estimate that under this bill there will be 1.2 million new audits per year with over 700,000 of those new audits falling on taxpayers making $75,000 or less,&#8221; the senator revealed.
In a Twitter post shared by the senator that included the video of his speech, Cruz noted the enormous size the expanded IRS agents would have compared to other areas of the federal government.
&#8220;Democrats want to make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Patrol combined,&#8221; Cruz wrote. &#8220;That&#8217;s a terrible idea. We should abolish the IRS!&#8221;
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Democrats want to make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Patrol combined.
That&#39;s a terrible idea. We should abolish the IRS! <a href="https://t.co/DtI8SSIHmO">pic.twitter.com/DtI8SSIHmO</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1556258629426331648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1556265381433675776" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Sunday, Cruz called the bill &#8220;big government run amok.&#8221;
&#8220;My amendment would have struck the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;But Democrats want to target the American people and their small businesses will more audits. These agents aren&#8217;t going to go after billionaires.&#8221;
In addition to concerns related to the expansion of the IRS, Cruz spoke out against a push by Democrats to punish unvaccinated school children in Washington, D.C., from attending school in person.
&#8220;Enough is enough. COVID-19 learning loss has been devastating,&#8221; Cruz tweeted. &#8220;But DC Democrats don’t care. They want to punish unvaccinated schoolkids, primarily minorities, from attending school in person.&#8221;
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Enough is enough. COVID-19 learning loss has been devastating.
But DC Democrats don’t care. They want to punish unvaccinated schoolkids, primarily minorities, from attending school in-person. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/votearama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#votearama</a> <a href="https://t.co/pYXaSx4ZPq">pic.twitter.com/pYXaSx4ZPq</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1556298763295145988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cruz argued that if Democrats vote in favor of the legislation, it will punish thousands of public school students who would not be eligible to attend. He cited research that 85% of 12-15-year-old students in D.C. are vaccinated, but just 60% of African Americans students have received a COVID vaccination.
&#8220;We should not be denying children education because D.C. Democrats want to force them to get a COVID vaccine against their wishes or their parents&#8217; wishes,&#8221; he concluded.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-s-vaccine-mandate-might-disproportionately-affect-black-students-exacerbate-racial-inequity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the District of Columbia requires all children 12 years old and older to be vaccinated for COVID before they begin schooling this fall. The move could negatively affect black students already disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Though many school districts have rescinded COVID vaccine requirements, Washington, D.C. mandates that children 12 and older be “up-to-date on required vaccinations before returning this August.”

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On Thursday, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced she had requested the National Guard be stationed indefinitely in her city to deal with the 4,000 illegal immigrants who have arrived on migrant buses, calling it a “tipping point.”
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BREAKING: DC <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorBowser?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayorBowser</a> requests <a href="https://twitter.com/DCNationalGuard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DCNationalGuard</a> activated indefinitely to help migrant busses arriving in DC. Calling it a “humanitarian crisis” that has reached a “tipping point” with 4,000 migrants so far. Requesting DC Armory be used as processing center. <a href="https://twitter.com/nbcwashington?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nbcwashington</a>
&mdash; Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) <a href="https://twitter.com/SegravesNBC4/status/1552687570714345473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Even before Thursday, in a July 19 <a href="https://twitter.com/SegravesNBC4/status/1552692575005540352/photo/1">letter</a> to the office of the Secretary of Defense on behalf of Bowser that requested the National Guard be stationed in the city, the letter cited GOP governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Doug Ducey of Arizona sending buses of illegal immigrants to Washington D.C., with 4,000 immigrants arriving on 200 buses, then complained, “In the last month, however, the pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points.”
Senator Ted Cruz blasted Bowser after her Thursday statement claiming the city had reached a “tipping point,” snapping, “If 4000 is a tipping point, what the hell do you call the THREE &amp; A HALF MILLION illegal immigrants who’ve crossed our southern border??”
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DC Mayor—rightly—calls massive influx of illegal aliens a “humanitarian crisis.”
She says w/ 4000 arriving in DC, we’re “at a tipping point.”
If 4000 is a tipping point, what the hell do you call the THREE &amp; A HALF MILLION illegal immigrants who’ve crossed our southern border?? <a href="https://t.co/55OxpAfOel">https://t.co/55OxpAfOel</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1552695833660899328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Bowser <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/d-c-mayor-calls-for-national-guard-to-deal-with-influx-of-illegal-migrants/">said on Thursday</a>, “I&#8217;ve asked for the deployment of the guard as long as we need the guard to deal with the humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate. The number of people crossing the border seeking asylum, we expect to only go up, we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad hoc city by city, state by state response.&#8221;
While Bowser has been willing to call the National Guard in to help with illegal immigrants, her city is suffering from a soaring number of homicides. By the end of June, the city had registered 100 homicides, a number not usually reached until October. Tim Meads of The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/d-c-homicides-surging-fastest-rate-in-nearly-two-decades/">noted</a>:
June is the earliest month that tragic record has been broken since 2003, <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/dc-100-homicides-earlier-than-any-year-since-2003/65-da799db4-d5b5-44ba-96f4-7b917b7aa85e">according</a> to a local CBS affiliate. D.C. Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton recently <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/dc-100-homicides-earlier-than-any-year-since-2003/65-da799db4-d5b5-44ba-96f4-7b917b7aa85e">claimed</a> that the city&#8217;s recent &#8220;police reform&#8221; is to blame for the rise in homicides, among other crimes. “This increase in crime is due to the DC Council’s implementation of misguided ‘police reform’ legislation,” Pemberton told the outlet.
“The Council’s actions have had a chilling effect on professional and responsible policing,” Pemberton <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/dc-100-homicides-earlier-than-any-year-since-2003/65-da799db4-d5b5-44ba-96f4-7b917b7aa85e">told</a> the press. “Other major cities that have passed similar legislation have also experienced the mass departure of police personnel and, as a result, surges in crime. While the Council does its business inside a building protected by armed security, police officers in the real world are unable to do the impactful and necessary tasks needed to protect the public and apprehend violent criminals.”

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D.C. Mayor Complains Of ‘Tipping Point’ With 4,000 Illegal Immigrants. Cruz Fires: What The Hell Do You Call 3.5 Million At The Border

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in a graphic video showing the horrifying effects of the drug cartels’ influence on the influx of immigrants flooding the southern border.
The video showed the dead bodies of immigrants who did not survive, including one of a father and child lying face down in the water just as they reached land.
“President Biden doesn’t want Americans to know that he has been ignoring the narco slave trade taking place along our southern border,” Cruz tweeted.
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President Biden doesn’t want Americans to know that he has been ignoring the narco slave trade taking place along our southern border. <a href="https://t.co/OXtOYADamj">pic.twitter.com/OXtOYADamj</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1551746363523842049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“These children come in, in debt to vicious cartels — thousands and thousands of dollars,” Cruz stated in the video. “And the teenage boys work for the gangs in every city in America. And the teenage girls experience a hell worse than that, with far too many of them human-trafficked into sex slavery.”
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are responsible for the worst plague of slavery in America since the Civil War,” he fired. “This is not compassionate. This is not humane. This is barbaric.”
The video finished by stating, “Abolish the Narco Slave Trade.”
According to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/10/05/mexico-drug-cartels-extortion-migrants">Noticias Telemundo Investiga</a>, which spoke with a number of immigrants who had crossed the southern border, drug cartels kidnap families both before and after they try to cross the border. Immigrants once kidnapped are forced to relinquish their cellphones, then told they will lose a finger if they do not contact their families and instruct them to pay ransom or the victims will be harmed.
If ransom is not paid, photographs of the victims who have been raped or beaten are sent back to the families.
Researcher Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/are-cartels-capture-extort-torture-migrants-8-mexican-states-rcna2454">NBC News</a> that the immigrants do not report attacks by the cartels, adding, “They don’t report them because they threaten them if they do so, and they don’t know who to turn to. Most kidnappers have ties to the authorities, so it’s virtually impossible that they’ll take action against them. It is the perfect business.”
In March 2021, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-smuggling-children-in-idUSKBN2BF2QB">Reuters</a> reported that roughly 10,000 children under the age of 18 crossed illegally into the United States without their parents the month before, nearly double the number in January, according to CBP data. The soaring number from the month before came after Biden’s administration said at the beginning of February 2021 it would not rapidly expel unaccompanied minors.
“It’s good to take advantage of the moment, because children are able to pass quickly. That’s what we’re telling everyone,” a Guatemalan smuggler told Reuters.

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