Ted Cruz: “Every day, Americans are dying, murdered, assaulted, raped…”

“Now imagine 639 arenas just like this, filled to the brim that is 11.5 million people, larger than all but eight states in the nation. But the numbers don't show us the true price that our country is paying. Every day, Americans are dying, murdered, assaulted, raped by illegal immigrants that the Democrats have released. Teenage girls and boys wearing colored wristbands are being sold into a life of sex slavery. This is evil and it's wrong. And it is happening every damn day.” (02:06–02:21)

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