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Ted Cruz: “12 million illegal immigrants were allowed to come into this…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Senator Ted Cruz Addresses Border Security and Immigration Policies in Heated Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 00:30

For four years under Joe Biden and the Democrats, this country witnessed an invasion at our southern border. It is an invasion that has no. Precedent in the history of our country. 12 million illegal immigrants were allowed to come into this country. And that was deliberate. It was not an accident. It was not negligence. It was a deliberate choice that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Alejandro Mayorkas and every Democrat senator and House member made. (00:30–00:34)

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Asserts that 12 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S. under the Biden administration.

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