Ted Cruz: “The man who fired that gun, he'd been deported five times.”

“And it is happening every damn day. Think of Kate Steinle. She was 32, walking with her father on a San Francisco pier when a bullet tore through her heart. The man who fired that gun, he'd been deported five times. every damn day. Think of Lake and Riley, just 22 years old, a nursing student with dreams of healing others. She went for a jog and never came home.” (03:00–03:07)

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