ICYMI: Sen. Cruz Exposes Hypocrisy of Biden Administration on Fox & Friends

DALLAS, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Fox & Friends this morning to discuss the Biden administration’s admission that they must build 20 miles of border wall despite halting construction immediately after being sworn in. 

About Biden’s broken border policies, Sen. Cruz said:

“I think the policy is collapsing, and it's a disaster. I don't believe a word of it. I think [the Democrats] are trying to pretend they give a damn, because look blue states are finally seeing the consequences of this. You've got blue mayors, Eric Adams in New York, saying that illegal immigration is destroying New York City. They've had about 110,000 illegal immigrants, and that's destroying New York City. What the heck do you think 7.6 million has done to Texas and other border states? They're experiencing now what we've been saying for a long time, which is this is a crisis. It's out of control. But I do not believe for a minute Joe Biden wants to fix it. I think this is all window dressing to pretend he cares. His objective is he wants even more illegal immigrants.”

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Steve Doocy 0:00 

So, let's head back down to North Dallas where Lawrence Jones is joined by Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Morning, guys.

Lawrence Jones 0:10 

Good morning. Happy to welcome the senator from the great state of Texas Ted Cruz.

Senator, we just played a clip of Joe Biden saying that he wasn't gonna build any more wall. Now the administration says they're gonna do 20 miles, and it works I guess great for Texas—20 miles of border. What do you think about this flip flop and the overall policy of the Biden administration?

Sen. Cruz 0:34 

Well, I think the policy is collapsing, and it's a disaster. And I don't believe a word of it. I think they're pretending. I think they're trying to pretend they give a damn, because look blue states are finally seeing the consequences of this. You've got blue mayors, you've got Eric Adams in New York, saying that illegal immigration is destroying New York City. They've had about 110,000 illegal immigrants and that's destroying New York City. What the heck do you think 7.6 million has done to Texas and the other border states? And so they're experiencing now what we've been saying for a long time, which is this is a crisis. It's out of control. But I do not believe for a minute Joe Biden wants to fix it. I think this is all window dressing to pretend he cares. His objective is he wants even more illegal immigrants.

Lawrence Jones 1:21 

What is the end goal here for bringing the illegals to the country? I already see this visa thing which seems to be a magnet.

Sen. Cruz 1:28 

Yeah, so, I think the end goal is two things. Number one, there's a dynamic in the Democrat Party, which is they've gone crazy, and in particular they've handed their policy agenda over to the radical fringe on every issue. So, you know, you look on something on law enforcement they're listening to the abolish the police and the defund the police nutcases in their party. You look on things like gender issues, they're listening to the people that want to sterilize and mutilate children. I mean, those are the crazies. That's not a mainstream view. And on immigration, they're listening to the open borders radicals—the people in their party that believe we should not have borders, that's part of it. And the other part of it is, I think, there's some very cynical Democrat politicians and they look at 7.6 million people, and they see them all as future Democrat voters. And so, their view is they're willing to look the other way, they're willing to tolerate people being killed, they’re willing to tolerate children being brutalized, they're willing to tolerate thousands of women being sexually assaulted, and 100,000 people dying of drug overdoses because all of those issues they say are less important to them than bringing in a bunch of Democrats and flipping the entire country blue. It's cynical as all get out. And I see no indication that this administration wants change.

Lawrence Jones 2:48 

Well, now they're taking the air marshals who have a job already.

Sen. Cruz 2:48

Yeah.

Lawrence Jones 2:48

They say they don't want to use the border agents. They're doing process and now they want to send them to the border.

Sen. Cruz 2:58 

Well, and they are sending them. I'm trying to get answers from the administration. How many air marshals have they pulled out of the sky? And look, it's worth remembering why we have air marshals. You know, we stood up that program in large part following 9/11. And their job is to stop terrorism in the sky. And Joe Biden and this administration, they're pulling hundreds of air marshals off the planes. That makes us more vulnerable to terrorism—more vulnerable to some other horrific act of terrorism—and then they're sending them, and the reports we're getting is they're sending them involuntarily. They're ordering them to go down to the border. And here's the most maddening thing, they're not doing law enforcement on the border. What they're doing is paperwork—they're doing processing. The thing to understand, Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, he is not trying to stop this. He doesn't want to stop this. He views his job is to speed up illegal immigration. When you listen to his testimony before the Senate. What he says is, look, I want to process illegal immigrants faster. You know, one of the last times I was there, the Border Patrol agent showed me, every one of them had an app on their phones, where they can now process an illegal immigrant in two minutes. And you got to understand the dynamic. And I know you've been down to the border, but for folks who haven't been there I bring senators down to the border all the time and we go out, we'll go out on a midnight patrol. And you don't have to go look for illegal immigrants. Literally, within minutes. they'll find you just driving through, they'll come right up to you, and they'll turn themselves into you. I mean, they're not—most of them are not—running. They're looking for you. They show up, and they typically have a plastic baggie that they carry with them. And in that baggie, they've got a cell phone, they've got usually some form of ID, a passport or birth certificate or driver's license, and then they've got a piece of paper with a name, number, and address of the United States. They go find a Border Patrol agent, and with the app they can scan say their passport and it auto populates all the fields. And it takes them two minutes and they say, ‘Lawrence, where do you want to go?’ You say, ‘New York City, Big Apple.’ They say, ‘Great, go sit over there.’ And all they're doing from that point on is processing to put you on a plane or a bus to send you to wherever you want to go, and every city in America is now a border city. Joe Biden is the last mile of the human trafficking network.

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