Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slammed President Joe Biden Tuesday for traveling across Europe rather than visiting the southern border and addressing the migrant influx.
“Well, you know what, Joe Biden’s in Europe right now,” Cruz said during a congressional hearing. “Maybe it’s time for the person ostensibly in charge of the border from this administration to go to the border.”
Cruz added, “In the last month, CBP agents encountered 180,034 illegal immigrants crossing the border. That is a 674% increase from last May. That is stunning. We are on path to have over 2 million people cross the border illegally this year, the highest rate in 20 years. Where were we last year? Last year, we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.”
Sen. Ted Cruz on the 674% increase in illegal immigration since last May: “To my Democratic colleagues on this committee… why haven’t you gone down to the border? Biden refuses to the border. … Indeed, Kamala Harris seems to go everywhere else, except our southern border.” pic.twitter.com/xuZn30GcRg
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 15, 2021
Cruz also took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris, who was appointed as Biden’s “border czar” earlier this year and has so far failed to visit the southern border, drawing criticism from conservatives.
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Cruz said that Harris “seems to go everywhere else except our southern border.”
“There’s a reason Kamala Harris doesn’t want to go to the border,” the Texas Republican explained. “There’s a reason Senate Democrats on this committee don’t want to go to the border. Because they know if they go to the border, the TV cameras will come with them. And they have no answer for this humanitarian crisis that is playing out.”
Biden has been in Europe for the past several days, meeting with world leaders at the G-7 summit in England and then meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
