Who Is Ted Cruz?

My VIP for this week is Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his visit to the southern border of Texas and his recounting of the horrors that he witnessed. According to Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal, Cruz visited the border late Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday on a midnight patrol with Border Patrol agents.

The patrol “encountered a group of about 20 illegal aliens in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley,” who had surrendered to Border Patrol. Cruz said that he spoke with the group of mostly women and girls for about 40 minutes. 

“There was one little girl who’s 13 years old,” Cruz said during a press conference in Anzalduas Park, Texas, adding that the girl had “no family with her.”

“There was another little girl who was 16 years old. She had no family with her,” he said.

“There was a little boy who was 15 years old. He had no family with him.”

Cruz said they asked the minors “about the violence they’d faced on the travel over – the look in those kids faces was horrifying.”

Cruz recounted a “disturbing” conversation with a 10-year-old girl standing in the back of the group with a “man who said he was her father with his arm draped forcefully around her,” adding that “it was obvious to anyone who’s ever seen a father and daughter that these two were not related.”

“At one point when we asked about her mother,” Cruz said, “we saw her look to the man who was claiming to be her dad, wondering what’s the answer supposed to be?”

DNA tests at the border to determine family relationships were stopped on June 1 by the Biden administration. Cruz declared that the move proves that “Democrats don’t care if that 10-year-old girl is related to the adult man.”

Cruz had the following “message for [President] Joe Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris, and every Democrat senator … come to the border, come to the Rio Grande Valley, come out on midnight patrol and look in the eyes of the little children who are suffering from these inhumane policies. This is horrific. This is wrong. And the people of South Texas know this is an utter disaster.”

Allen included the following statistics in her article:

·         Customs and Border Protection encountered 137,275 unaccompanied alien children at the southern border in fiscal year 2023.

·         CBP encountered 2,475,669 illegal aliens along the U.S. southern border in fiscal year 2023 – equivalent to 6,782 migrants per day and 96,725 more than in fiscal year 2022.

·         Data released by the House Judiciary Committee shows that at least 3.8 million illegal aliens have been released into the U.S. interior or successfully evaded the Border Patrol to enter the country since Biden took office Jan. 20, 2021.

According to Cruz, multiple pieces of legislation have been introduced to prevent migrants from entering the U.S. illegally. However, “none of it will work… as long as you have a president of the United States defies the law, who simply says, if you come to this country, we will let you go. That’s what’s caused this crisis.”

The crisis at the southern U.S. border will continue until enough Americans wake up and understand that Democrat policies do not work. Period. Exclamation mark.