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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has a brilliant plan to combat effort by the Biden administration to open the U.S. southern border and secretly fly illegal immigrants across the U.S. in the dead of night.
Cruz introduced legislation that would establish 13 new ports of entry in Democrat-run cities across the U.S.
The bill is called “Stop the SURGE Act” as we are currently witnessing an “unprecedented man-made crisis on the South Texas border,” Cruz said.
Cruz wants to place the 13 ports at locations including Martha’s Vineyard, along with Cambridge and Nantucket, Mass.
He also cites other liberal towns such as North Hero, Vt., Newport and Block Island, R.I., Greenwich, Conn., and Rehoboth Beach, Del.
In New York, Cruz proposes Governors Island and Scarsdale.
Cruz also suggests Palo Alto, California along with Yountville and St. Helena.
At these new ports, illegal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol will be transferred for processing.
An estimated 17,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, set up in Texas last month.
They created a massive gathering under the Del Rio International Bridge.
Instead, Cruz suggests illegal immigrants should be processed at ports inside affluent liberal towns like Martha’s Vineyard.
Watch the clip:
A press release stated: “As Texas Border Patrol Sectors are flooded with historic numbers of illegal aliens pouring into the country, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Stop the SURGE Act to demand President Biden, his administration, and Congressional Democrats address the unprecedented man-made crisis on the South Texas border and their political decisions that directly created it.”
Cruz said, “For the past ten months, President Biden and his administration have willingly surrendered the United States’ southern border to dangerous criminal cartels, with no thought given to the South Texas border communities like McAllen and Del Rio, which are running low on resources from dealing with this massive influx of illegal immigrants.”
“That’s why today I am introducing this crucial legislation to alleviate the massive overload at the southern border by establishing new ports of entry in Democrat-led communities such as North Hero, Vermont, where Bernie Sanders spends his summers, and Martha’s Vineyard, where Democrat elites host their cocktail parties.”
“If Washington Democrats had to endure even a fraction of the suffering South Texas families, farmers, ranchers, and small businesses have had to face, our nation’s immigration laws would be enforced, the wall would be built, and the Remain in Mexico policy would be re-implemented,” he continued.
“I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stop ignoring the plight of South Texas communities and act swiftly to end this horrific humanitarian crisis.”
“From my time this year on the ground in Laredo and Del Rio, it is abundantly clear that President Biden has all but abandoned our border patrol agents and processing facilities, and left Texas communities to fend for themselves,” Cruz said.
“President Biden and Democrats need to step up to defend our southern border and support our heroic Customs and Border Protection officials.”
On Fox News, Cruz said, “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a political problem, and their political problem is their policies on the border have produced an absolute catastrophe. Absolute chaos.”
“Two million people expected to cross illegally this year, and you get children being physically assaulted, sexually assaulted, you have women being raped, you have Covid positivity rates — at the Biden cages in south Texas, the Covid positivity rates, when I was last down there, three or four weeks ago, were 24%.”
“And they have no solution because they have made a promise to the radical open-borders left that they won’t enforce the law,” he concluded.
