Ted Cruz confronts DHS chief over 'Biden cages' for migrant kids



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday with questions about migrant children being kept in what Cruz called "Biden cages" at the southern border.

Mayorkas told the senator he "respectfully" disagreed with his use of the term "cages" to describe the pens where hundreds of migrant teenagers were held at overcrowded immigration detention facilities in Texas earlier this year.

"Fine, you can disagree with it," Cruz said. "How many children have been in the Biden cages? I've been to the Biden cages, I've seen the Biden cages. How many children have you detained at the Donna [Texas] tent facility in the cages you built to hold kids? How many children have been in those cages?"

"I, respectfully, am not familiar with the term 'cages' and to what you are referring," Mayorkas said.

I\u2019ve been to the border and I\u2019ve seen the Biden cages.\n\nBut Secretary Mayorkas doesn\u2019t know how many \nchildren have been in the Biden cages.\n#BidenBorderCrisispic.twitter.com/0It5sGvWXc

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) 1637095660

"Enclosures in which they are locked in," Cruz said slowly. "In which I took photographs and put them out because you blocked the press and didn't want people to see the Biden cages. These secure facilities in which they are locked down in Donna, those facilities, how many children have been in them?"

Senate staff then held up a photograph of the migrant detention facility in Donna, Texas to support Cruz's claim. The photograph was taken in the spring and showed children confined in overcrowded conditions.

"Oh, by the way, here's a photograph of the Biden cages," Cruz said. "Children sleeping on floors, crushed in upon each other. When I took this photograph, the rate of COVID positivity was over 10 percent."

"That is precisely why I stated in March of this year that a Border Patrol station is no place for a child," Mayorkas said. But he could not provide Cruz with a specific answer on the number of children detained at that facility and he continued to insist that children were not being held in "cages."

Cruz then brought up the fact that President Joe Biden has not yet visited the southern border and criticized Democrats for failing to end the migrant crisis at the border. Mayorkas confirmed that neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris had visited the Donna facility.

"Has any Democratic member of this committee given a damn enough to see the children being locked up by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because of your failed immigration policies?" Cruz demanded.

"Democrats have been down to the Donna facility," Mayorkas answered. "Whether they are members of this committee, I do not know."

Cruz proposes creating 'new ports of entry in Democrat-led communities' and shipping illegal aliens to those locations for processing



As large numbers of migrants continue to inundate America's southern border, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is proposing legislation that would create new ports of entry in what he described as "Democrat-led communities."

The proposal would require that illegal aliens who enter the U.S. at any of the Lone Star State's five Border Patrol Sectors must be transported to one of those new ports of entry for processing.

The ports of entry would be located in Block Island, R.I., Greenwich, Conn., Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Cambridge, Mass., Governors Island, N.Y., Rehoboth Beach, Del., Nantucket, Mass., Newport, R.I., Scarsdale, N.Y., Palo Alto, Calif., Yountville, Calif., St. Helena, Calif., and North Hero, Vt.

According to a press release, Cruz said that he is "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."

I'm introducing crucial legislation to alleviate the massive overload at the southern border by establishing new po… https://t.co/Ll9Ky7SvFR

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) 1634651649.0

"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," Cruz said.

When Cruz, who has served as a senator from Texas since 2013, was asked during a Fox News interview if the bill will go anywhere, he said that "the Democrats aren't gonna move it because they're, they're perfectly happy being hypocrites."

The U.S. experienced a massive influx of migrants during fiscal year 2021, recording large numbers of southwest land border encounters.

Democrats need to face the disaster of their policies and the humanitarian misery they are causing.That’s why I’v… https://t.co/GCkGdwucaF

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) 1634653827.0

Senator Ted Cruz Delivers Water In Texas

On Saturday, Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas posted photos of himself passing out water to Texans. In the post, Cruz can be seen loading water into cars while talking with presumably local residents. Included in the tweet is the hashtag, “#TexasStrong.” #TexasStrong pic.twitter.com/gK4DHtsvLU — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) February 21, 2021 His actions come […]

NBC's Andrea Mitchell tries to dunk on Ted Cruz and embarrasses herself instead



Veteran NBC journalist Andrea Mitchell attempted to dunk on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and instead manifested her own literary ignorance.

Mitchell made the embarrassing gaffe on Wednesday in a tweet intending to mock Cruz for making a famous literary reference.

.@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner
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".@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that's Faulkner," tweeted Mitchell.

But, as so many noted on Twitter, Cruz was in fact correct and Mitchell didn't realize that William Faulkner had lifted the title of his book from one the Bard's plays.

"Faulkner got it from Shakespeare (who put it in the mouth of a murderer, incidentally)," corrected Ramesh Ponnuru of the American Enterprise Institute.

"Smug condescension levitating above an abyss of ignorance," responded Blake Masters.

Cruz took the opportunity to chide Mitchell with another Shakespeare quote, this one from Hamlet.

"Methinks she doth protest too much," tweeted Cruz, adding the reference to his tweet.

Methinks she doth protest too much.

One would think NBC would know the Bard. Andrea, take a look at Macbeth act 5, scene 5:

“[Life] struts & frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury,
Signifying nothing."
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 11, 2021

"Touché," responded Mitchell who added an apology after her original tweet.

"I clearly studied too much American literature and not enough Macbeth. My apologies to Sen. Cruz," tweeted Mitchell.

The Shakespearian Twitter feud followed upon a statement from Cruz deriding the impeachment trial in the Senate against former President Donald Trump.

"I think we'll see the trial continue for the rest of the week. It is reminiscent of Shakespeare that it is full of sound and fury and yet signifying nothing. I think are you going to see a lot of partisan table pounding. You're going to see a lot of effort to pull on emotion. We saw the beginning of that with the Hollywood video that the House managers began with. I think we'll see a lot more of that today and tomorrow," said Cruz on Fox News Tuesday.

He went on to say that it was nearly impossible for Democrats to convict the president in the Senate since so many Republicans had already vocalized their opposition to the proceeding which has a two thirds majority bar to pass.

On Wednesday, senators saw new footage from the U.S. Capitol rioting, including one video showing how close Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was to a confrontation with the violent rioters.

Here's more about the Senate trial:

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