Ted Cruz was attacked today over his recent trips to the border by AOC, who accused him of creating the border crisis:
A lot of people who are just now suddenly horrified at the dehumanizing conditions at our border are the same folks who dehumanize immigrants + helped build these cages in the 1st place.
When we tried to stop this infrastructure over a year ago,we were overruled by BOTH parties. https://t.co/XRt7mKtFq1
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 1, 2021
A politician’s strength isn’t based on a trip. It’s based on their policy and voting RECORD.
And the fact is a LOT of Ted Cruz types who are now going down to meet refugee children in boats outfitted w/ machine guns are the ones who helped create this problem in the first place.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 1, 2021
What poppycock. Ted Cruz was quick to hit back with FACTS:
.@AOC explains the real Dem position: abolish ICE.
Full open borders. Which would make the #BidenBorderCrisis even worse.
She says nothing else works.
Really?
Last year, we had the lowest illegal immigration IN 45 YEARS.
This year, we have the highest in 20 years. https://t.co/zT8wKuvkRm
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 1, 2021
I love how Cruz pointed out that Trump fixed our immigration problem, which is why last year was the lowest immigration in 45 years. Heck, we just heard from one illegal this year who said he wouldn’t have come last year because he knew it would have been a waste of time. But with Biden, he knew the ‘doors’ were open again.
Here’s how AOC responded:
Ted, this is pretty rich coming from someone who fled their own home (and responsibilities) during an environmental crisis to cross the border and seek refuge in Mexico.
Also you funded cages, expanded cages, and yet you’re complaining about cages. You have no policy, just puff. https://t.co/0MI8oU0EtQ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 1, 2021
Maybe Mexico shouldn’t let YOU in the next time you try to run away from your job to sip umbrella drinks in Cancún.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 1, 2021
Garbage. Instead of responding to the brilliant point he made, she attacked him for taking a trip to Mexico during Texas Wintergeddon. And then claimed he built the cages.
Cruz hits back with even more facts:
Classic leftist strategy: ignore substance, engage in ad hominem attacks.
True or false: Obama built the cages.
True or false: Biden is building bigger cages for more kids.
Your policy—open borders & abolishing ICE—would result in millions of kids being abused by traffickers. https://t.co/J1TRHTCCnX
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 1, 2021
TRUE AND TRUE! But you won’t hear her admit that. If she was serious about fighting her own party on these things, she would at least acknowledge the objective facts about it.
And regards to her advocacy for open border policies, that’s exactly why the border is in chaos and all these kids are in ‘cages’. Biden has been spewing this open borders crap all during the campaign, inviting people to come to the border to claim asylum.
This is why she won’t criticize Biden like she did Trump, because she’d basically be criticizing herself. He’s been shouting her rhetoric, at least in part, and the border is now broken.
Which again, is what radical leftists want. Democrats like AOC don’t actually care about the kids being in cages. No, they just want them released into the US so they can become part of a big, fat amnesty plan in the future that would make all of them voters for the Democratic party. That’s what ALL of this is really about.