Senator Ted Cruz told Newsmax that the results of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown have been so impactful, they’ve thrown the Democratic Party into complete disarray. “They are lunatics,” Cruz said during an appearance on Carl Higbie FRONTLINE. “The Democrats have decided let’s go down to El Salvador and say if you elect Democrats, we will bring in more illegal aliens who are MS-13 gang members.”
Cruz was referencing a recent trip by several Democratic lawmakers to El Salvador, where they advocated for the return of a deported individual the Trump administration has linked to MS-13, a notoriously violent gang.
The senator also criticized two Democrat-affiliated judges who, he claims, went to extreme lengths to interfere with immigration enforcement and protect illegal immigrants from federal authorities.
“You have a judge in New Mexico – I talked about this on my podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz – who was hiding a Tren de Aragua gang member, a Venezuelan gang member, in his home, who took the gang member’s cell phone, destroyed it with a hammer and threw it in a dumpster so there would be no evidence of this guy,” Cruz said. “This guy’s cell phone had pictures of two decapitated victims on it, and Democrats are actively hiding the gang members.”
He continued, “It is utterly bizarre, but it is because Trump has caused their brains to melt. Today, Democrats are very honest. You elect Democrats, you get more illegals, more gang members, more murderers, more criminals.”
Earlier that same day, President Trump declared that border security under his administration was operating at peak effectiveness, reporting a near-total halt of illegal crossings. “The border is in great shape,” Trump said, touting a “99.9% success rate” in stopping unlawful entry.
Cruz celebrated the dramatic improvement, calling it “a massive victory” and underscoring that Trump had kept a major campaign pledge. “It is exactly what he promised the American people,” the Texas senator said.
“In November, we had a clear mandate from the American people,” Cruz continued. “It was unequivocal. You look at President Trump, he was reelected, he won the popular vote. Of the seven swing states across the country, President Trump won all seven. That was clear and unambiguous. The voters likewise gave us a Republican House and a Republican Senate.”
Cruz emphasized that even the Rio Grande Valley, traditionally a Democratic stronghold for generations, shifted its support to the GOP. “The Rio Grande Valley, which has been bright blue for 100 years, flipped red,” he said. “Trump carried the valley, and I carried the valley, and the open borders of the last four years was a huge part of the reason. The American people said enough already with open borders, with 12 million illegals invading this country, with murderers and rapists and gang bangers being released. In the first 100 days, Donald Trump has delivered on that promise and we’ve seen, as he just said, illegal border crossings drop over 99.9%. That’s staggering.”
{Matzav.com}