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Ted Cruz: “The Biden administration didn't enforce that treaty and…”

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Venezuela Victory Part 2–Historically Transforming Latin America & What Happens Next

Published | Video Starts at 25:09

There's a water treaty called the water Treaty of 1944 that obligates Mexico to provide 350,000 acre feet of water a year to South Texas and under Biden. The Biden administration didn't enforce that treaty and Mexico walked all over us and, and, and ended up being 1.3 million acre feet of water in arrears. Now what did that mean as a practical matter? It, it meant that the farmers in South Texas were facing a drought. Not a natural disaster, but a man made disaster. (25:09–25:19)

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Asserts that the Biden administration failed to enforce the water treaty with Mexico.

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