Republican Senator Ted Cruz was on CBS’s “Face the Nation” with Main Garrett on Sunday morning to debate President-Elect Trump’s tariff insurance policies on Mexico and Canada. He strongly supported the coverage as a method to get these international locations to conform on securing the border.
“I do know the politics round tariffs have modified. President-Elect Trump has executed that. However have the economics modified?” Garrett requested.
“Nicely, I’ll let you know what hasn’t modified is the significance of leverage. And I bought to say you have a look at the specter of tariffs in opposition to Mexico and Canada instantly has produced motion. We’ve seen the President of Mexico get up and promise that she goes to work hand in hand with the President of the US, President Trump, to safe the border,” Cruz stated.
“We’ve seen 4 years of an invasion at our southern border and let me ask you Main, why hasn’t Joe Biden executed this? Why hasn’t Joe Biden really stood up and used leverage to safe the border? And the reason being Joe Biden, and the Democrats needed this invasion to occur,” Cruz stated.
“We’re gonna safe the border. That is about utilizing leverage to get Mexico and Canada to cooperate,” Cruz stated.
Senator Cruz additionally informed Garrett that he’s introducing a invoice referred to as “The Justice for Jocelyn Act.”
“I feel one of many very first payments we’re gonna take up within the Senate vote on and I hope go, is my laws “The Justice for Jocelyn Act” that could be a response to the horrific rape and homicide of Jocelyn Nungaray, 12-year-old lady in Houston, Texas killed by violent prison unlawful aliens launched by Joe Biden and the Democrats,” Cruz continued.
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.@SenTedCruz (R-TX) defends President-elect Trump’s vow to impose tariffs in opposition to Mexico and Canada, saying the menace itself “instantly has produced motion.”
“We’ve seen the president of Mexico get up and promise that she goes to work hand-in-hand with the president of… pic.twitter.com/iuMdaSnM7x
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 1, 2024
Senator Cruz stated that he expects President-Elect Trump to carry again “Stay in Mexico” to reduce illegals getting into the US.
“I count on we’ll as soon as once more enter into “Stay in Mexico” and we’re going to see, I’m going to make a prediction proper now. We’ll see the numbers plummet of unlawful immigration coming into this nation, not in a yr, not in six months, however in January and February as a result of we could have a President who will vigorously implement the legislation,” Cruz stated.
“This final election was an unbelievable landslide for President Trump. He received all seven of the swing states,” Cruz declared.
“This cycle south Texas flipped Republican, and it’s wonderful what having 12 million folks invade your own home can do to alter folks’s voting habits. I feel the President has a mandate to ship on securing the border and I sit up for working hand in hand with him to ship on that promise,” Cruz continued.
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.@SenTedCruz (R-TX) says he expects President-elect Trump’s incoming administration will reenter the “stay in Mexico” settlement instituted throughout his first administration which required non-Mexican asylum seekers to attend in Mexico for his or her U.S. court docket dates.
“We’ll see the… pic.twitter.com/PHaWvC42bf
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 1, 2024
