Ted Cruz: “In his region there were over more than 3,000 disappearances…”

“I said, you want to talk about sovereignty when the cartels are allowed to control the country and terrify people. I described a mayor of a northern Mexico City who I visited with a number of years ago, described how In his region there were over more than 3,000 disappearances of Mexican nationals who just disappear. The cartels kidnapped them, they murder them, they throw them in mass graves and abandon them. That is not the behavior of, of a sovereign country that is protecting its citizens the way it should be.” (13:39–13:48)

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