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This argument would have been news to some of these same Republicans just a few years or even months ago. Many saw a border “crisis” even under Trump’s leadership — and the need for laws to address it.
Cruz elaborated last week that we didn’t need a bill today because we had “the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years under Donald Trump. What was different is you had a president that wanted to secure the border.”
Cruz’s comments appear to reference Trump’s early tenure, when southwest border apprehensions dropped to four-decade lows — as they had under Barack Obama in the years prior. But that was not the case later in Trump’s presidency. In fact, despite Trump’s having been at the helm for years and very much seeming to want to secure the border, Cruz in 2019 saw a “crisis” and asserted that legislation was needed.
“I will continue to work tirelessly in Congress to convince my Democratic colleagues that we have a serious crisis on the border, and that they need to work with Republicans and take action now,” Cruz said in a July 2019 Fox News op-ed.
Cruz said of Congress not acting: “It’s irresponsible, it’s unjust and it’s heartless to ignore this ongoing crisis.”
Trump, too, saw legislation as a necessity back then — his own powers apparently insufficient to stem the tide.
“The only long-term solution to the crisis, and the only way to ensure the endurance of our nation as a sovereign country, is for Congress to overcome open-borders obstruction,” he said in November 2018.
In July 2019, Trump pointed to some of the specific types of legislation Senate negotiators are working on now: changing asylum laws, which Trump labeled “archaic.”
You fuckers are to easy. Not only will we get the bill, but we will get aid to Ukraine. Aid to Gaza. The Dreamers will get citizenship.
And Donald Trump is going to prison.
Cruz elaborated last week that we didn’t need a bill today because we had “the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years under Donald Trump. What was different is you had a president that wanted to secure the border.”
Cruz’s comments appear to reference Trump’s early tenure, when southwest border apprehensions dropped to four-decade lows — as they had under Barack Obama in the years prior. But that was not the case later in Trump’s presidency. In fact, despite Trump’s having been at the helm for years and very much seeming to want to secure the border, Cruz in 2019 saw a “crisis” and asserted that legislation was needed.
“I will continue to work tirelessly in Congress to convince my Democratic colleagues that we have a serious crisis on the border, and that they need to work with Republicans and take action now,” Cruz said in a July 2019 Fox News op-ed.
Cruz said of Congress not acting: “It’s irresponsible, it’s unjust and it’s heartless to ignore this ongoing crisis.”
Trump, too, saw legislation as a necessity back then — his own powers apparently insufficient to stem the tide.
“The only long-term solution to the crisis, and the only way to ensure the endurance of our nation as a sovereign country, is for Congress to overcome open-borders obstruction,” he said in November 2018.
In July 2019, Trump pointed to some of the specific types of legislation Senate negotiators are working on now: changing asylum laws, which Trump labeled “archaic.”
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You fuckers are to easy. Not only will we get the bill, but we will get aid to Ukraine. Aid to Gaza. The Dreamers will get citizenship.
And Donald Trump is going to prison.
