Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a fool of himself again this week by taking a trip to the southern border in an effort to fear monger, resulting in former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) humiliating and shaming him.
Cruz, along with several other Republican lawmakers, traveled to the border to “investigate” what is happening there as migrants cross into the United States after fleeing from violence and certain death in their own countries.
Senate Republicans called the situation at the border a “humanitarian crisis” on Twitter.
1:00AM on our southern border.
18 Senators are here with Border Patrol on their night shift.
We saw the massive influx of migrant crossings.
Countless women + children.
We were heckled by cartels.
This is a humanitarian crisis.
And Joe Biden needs to address it immediately. pic.twitter.com/7GfRb2cc1C
— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) March 26, 2021
There’s an influx of migrants every year, even during the Trump administration. Of course, Republicans didn’t give a damn about humanitarianism over the last four years when Trump was ripping children from their mothers and locking them in cages.
President Biden has been working to address the situation by sending resources and personnel to the border to handle the influx, which was caused by Trump’s immigration policies that failed to process migrants in an orderly fashion and forced them to wait in Mexico, therefore resulting in what could be called a traffic jam.
As for their claim that they were heckled by cartel members and smugglers, Cruz also offered no proof of those claims and made it seem like his life was in danger.
We encountered human traffickers & cartel members tonight, yelling at us across the Rio Grande and preparing to cross. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/yXl3AyUIPd
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 26, 2021
Except that Cruz and his Republican colleagues were safe on a heavily armed Border Patrol boat, as O’Rourke pointed out.
You’re in a Border Patrol boat armed with machine guns.
The only threat you face is unarmed children and families who are seeking asylum (as well as the occasional heckler).
If you’re looking for a crisis to cosplay Senator for, I’m happy to point you in the right direction. https://t.co/mDyWs6rQOM
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
He then shamed Cruz for pulling a border stunt instead of working for his constituents, who have suffered a lot recently.
The state you “represent” in the Senate is the least insured in the nation.
That means your constituents are dying of diabetes, curable cancers and the flu (as well as 50,000 from Covid in the last year alone) because they can’t afford a doctor or medicine.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
110 Texans died in mass shootings in the last 2 years because you’re more concerned about taking care of the NRA than in taking care of the people you are supposed to serve.
Families from El Paso, Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe High, Midland/Odessa know what a real crisis is.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
Hundreds of thousands of working Texans make a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which means they need to 2 or even 3 jobs just to pay the rent and put food on the table.
And your hometown of Houston leads the nation in evictions of these minimum wage workers during the pandemic.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
O’Rourke then hit Cruz with immigration facts and slammed Cruz for fleeing to Cancun during the winter storm that killed over 100 Texans.
The truth is, the number of individual asylum seekers and immigrants seeking to come to this country is the SAME or LOWER than it was in 2019 when Trump was President (and you were, apparently, Senator).
This isn’t any more of a crisis today than it was then.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
If you’re ever interested in actually working on solutions to what we’re seeing at our border (instead of trafficking in seditious lies, fleeing Texas during a storm that killed more than 100, etc.), here are some ideas: https://t.co/D5idhhJ4w9
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 26, 2021
Republicans are making the situation at the border seem worse than it is. It’s mostly women and children fleeing from the very cartels Cruz claims he witnessed. It’s overflow stemming from years of Trump refusing to allow orderly border crossings and gumming up the processing system. Republicans had a chance to do something about it and all they did was lock up kids. They’re lucky they haven’t been arrested and sent to The Hague for committing crimes against humanity. And, frankly, they still should be.
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