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Ted Cruz: “In the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying we refused to…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:27

Eisenhower sent the National Guard in. The pattern is the same in this instance. You have Democrats who are saying, we refuse to comply with federal immigration law. Then you had In the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying we refused to comply with civil rights law. In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement. You know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician. The demonizing of law enforcement is. (03:27–03:33)

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Asserts that Democrats in the 1950s and 1960s refused to comply with civil rights law.

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