Senator Ted Cruz led a delegation of senators to the southern border this week to see what is happening firsthand.
It was worse than they imagined and you’ll be shocked by some of the images below.
This is a beyond a crisis. It’s a disgrace.
USA Today reports:
Groups of lawmakers visited the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, as the Biden administration continues to come under fire by both Republican and Democrats for the influx of migrants at the southern border.
Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both of Texas, led a group of more than a dozen Republican senators to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. That area is seeing some of the largest numbers of migrants crossing into the United States.
The lawmakers received a briefing by officials on the situation at the border, toured the Customs and Border Protection Facility in Donna, Texas, and took a boat tour in Mission, Texas. The group also received a nighttime border tour by the National Border Patrol Council in Mission on Thursday.
“John and I were able to bring 18 senators down to Texas, down to the Valley, to see firsthand the crisis that is unfolding here,” Cruz said in a press briefing Friday. “All of us today witnessed the ‘Biden cages.’ What is occurring here on the border is heartbreaking, and it is a tragedy.”
Watch below:
The border crisis is a man-made crisis that is a direct consequence of President Biden’s decisions to stop building the wall, to return to catch and release, and to end the stay in Mexico policy.#SecureTheBorder #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/HnwOyZ0HgV
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) March 26, 2021
Here are remarks from other senators:
Last night, I arrived at the southern border to see firsthand how bad the immigration crisis has gotten under the Biden Administration. pic.twitter.com/Wvxjy7U8ea
— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) March 26, 2021
It became clear to me today that 1 of 2 things is going on with the #BorderCrisis:
1. Either Pres. Biden believes in OPEN borders, or
2. The people Biden has put in charge of border security policy aren’t qualified to manage a food truck. pic.twitter.com/3tIrKimWLL
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) March 26, 2021
And now look at these shocking images:
Sadly it’s worse than imagined, to the point where @CBP has been forced to house migrants under a bridge. https://t.co/vkr86cB20e pic.twitter.com/56tfVF44Pe
— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) March 26, 2021
Here are babies handed over by smugglers. Babies. pic.twitter.com/bECBwBvwvd
— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) March 26, 2021
A small number of the 3300 unaccompanied children being held. Unacceptable on so many levels. pic.twitter.com/lP5kWrR6iB
— Senator Thom Tillis (@SenThomTillis) March 26, 2021
Trump did not do this. Biden did this.
Trump was demonized and this is worse!