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Cruz challenges Biden, Harris to come ‘look in the eyes’ of trafficked children after horrifying border trip

October 31, 2023 | | Print Article

A group of Republican senators demanded the Biden administration pay attention to the humanitarian and national security disaster at the southern U.S. border after a midnight trip with Border Patrol agents.

Coming face to face with a group of migrants who had illegally crossed into the U.S., Sen. Ted Cruz recounted the “horrifying” situation he witnessed in the Rio Grande Valley and, in particular, the plight of children.

“There was one little girl who’s 13 years old” and had “no family with her,” the Texas Republican said during a press conference in Anzalduas Park after his midnight patrol last week in which he encountered 20 illegal aliens who had turned themselves in to Border Patrol.

“There was another little girl who was 16 years old. She had no family with her,” Cruz continued. “There was a little boy who was 15 years old. He had no family with him.”

The senator recounted how he asked the minors “about the violence they’d faced on the travel over—the look in those kids’ faces was horrifying.”

In another instance, he spoke of the “disturbing” conversation he had with a 10-year-old girl who was 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?”

The lawmaker issued a “simple message” to President Joe Biden and Democrats: “Come to the border.”

The administration’s refusal to do its job has forced Texas to defend its own border, building its own border wall in spite of Biden’s minions.

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) joined Cruz in the Rio Grande Valley along with GOP Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming, Mike Lee of Utah and Nebraska’s Pete Ricketts.

“America’s southern border is the world’s worst-kept secret,” Cornyn said Monday in a speech from the Senate floor.

“If we’re going to deliver consequences, which means to deter more people from coming, that means ending catch and release – which is the policy of the Biden administration – and removing people who have no legal reason to remain in the United States,” he said. “Until the administration starts deterring would-be migrants with frivolous asylum claims from even approaching our border, we will remain in a constant state of crisis.”

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