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Ted Cruz: “Federal law, the statutes are explicit. You shall detain…”

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Published | Video Starts at 51:32

They called him the deporter in chief. What Joe Biden has done, no president has ever done before, which is millions of people that were apprehended. He simply let him go. And Federal law, the statutes are explicit. You shall detain them, you shall deport them. That is federal statute. And frankly, our Constitution is not designed to deal with a chief executive who utterly defies the law. That's an aspect of weaponization as well. (51:32–51:39)

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Asserts that federal law mandates the detention and deportation of certain individuals.

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