Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz accused Vice President Kamala Harris of conspiring with the Mexican president to encourage illegal immigration into the United States and shift America's political stance to the left.
“Kamala Harris wants more illegal immigrants to come to America,” Cruz said on Monday's podcast “The Verdict.” “Almost every Democrat in the Senate and the House wants more illegal immigrants to come to America. They are actively encouraging, encouraging and accelerating incursions at our southern border.”
“So now the Mexican government is actively supporting human traffickers,” he continued. “They're running buses all over Mexico with armed escorts of police and soldiers, taking illegal immigrants to the border and letting them into this country. And they're doing it because Kamala Harris wants them to.”
Cruz was responding to the Mexican government's announcement over the weekend that non-Mexican nationals who have been granted asylum in the United States would be transported in escorted buses from southern Mexico to the U.S. border.
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“Kamala Harris wants to bring more illegal immigrants into America,” Sen. Cruz said on the “Verdict” podcast on Monday. (AP/Stephen B. Morton)
The buses will leave from cities such as Villahermosa and Tapachula and travel north to the U.S. border, according to the Associated Press.
Cruz read excerpts from an Associated Press article on air, including one that said the Mexican government's move to bus migrants appears to be “an attempt to make asylum claims from southern Mexico more attractive to migrants who would otherwise travel north to Mexico City or the border.”
Cruz further noted that the announcement comes one week after the U.S. “expanded CBP One application access to southern Mexico” after previously only allowing applications to be made to migrants in central and northern Mexico.
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“The Mexican president, AMLO, wants as many illegal immigrants as possible to come to the United States. And Kamala Harris wants as many illegal immigrants as possible to come to the United States,” Cruz said. “They both have the same reason, which is to fundamentally shift the policy of the United States of America and move it dramatically to the left.”
The Texas senator claimed Harris and the Democrats want to increase the number of immigrants in the US from more than 11 million to “20 million, 30 million, 40 million.”
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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz accused Vice President Kamala Harris of conspiring with the Mexican president to encourage illegal immigration into the United States and shift America's political stance to the left. (Getty Images)
“Because in their view, that would mean Democrats winning every election forever,” Cruz continued.
Cruz's co-host, Ben Ferguson, added during the conversation that Mexico would not operate escorted buses from southern Mexico to the U.S. border “unless both countries work together.”
Cruz agreed that the two countries have “mutual interests.”
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Cruz was responding to the Mexican government's announcement over the weekend that non-Mexican nationals who have been granted asylum in the United States would be transported in escorted buses from southern Mexico to the U.S. border. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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Vice President Harris' office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
