Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is using his tweets and speeches to get President Obama’s attention on the immigration crisis at our border.
In addition to tweeting out potential routes to the Texas border from Austin and Dallas, Cruz appeared on the Senate floor Wednesday to call out President Obama for creating the humanitarian disaster and “visiting Democratic fat cats to collect checks” instead of traveling to the border to address the crisis himself.
“President Obama is down today in the state of Texas, but sadly he’s not visiting the border,” Cruz expanded. “He’s not visiting the children who are suffering because of the failures of Obama policies. Instead, he’s doing fundraisers. He’s visiting Democratic fat cats to collect checks and apparently there’s no time to look at the disaster of the devastation that’s being caused by his policies.”
He called the flooding of young migrants to the border “a disaster of the president’s own making,” one that is “the direct consequence of President Obama’s laws.”
In particular, the Texas senator criticized Obama for using his executive power in 2012 to grant amnesty to immigrants who entered the country as children. Cruz labeled this action “illegal.”
Cruz called on both President Obama and Congress to act to enforce immigration law and secure our country’s borders in order to combat this crisis.
“The only response that will stop this humanitarian disaster is for President Obama to start enforcing the law, to stop promising amnesty, to stop refusing to enforce federal immigration law and finally to secure the borders,” he asserted. “And indeed I would call upon our colleagues in this body — in both parties — to come together and secure the border once and for all and to stop holding border security hostage for amnesty.”
