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Ted Cruz: “They had a policy. If you arrive with a kid, it's…”

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

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FULL CONVERSATION AG Pam Bondi, Ted Cruz Detail Efforts To End Weaponization Of Government

Published | Video Starts at 09:23

And for four years, the Biden Justice Department, they just turned a blind eye and they facilitated it. You know, you talked about the kids. So They had a policy. If you arrive with a kid, it's essentially a get out of jail free card. And so you started seeing a phenomenon that we've never seen in immigration before, which is single young men showing up with little kids. (09:23–09:29)

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Asserts that there was a policy allowing individuals arriving with children to avoid detention.

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