Ted Cruz: “When you stand on the, on the border down by the Rio Grande…”

“And they were color coded for how many thousands of dollars they owed them. And it was liter. They were treating human beings like cattle. And When you stand on the, on the border down by the Rio Grande river, you see hundreds of these [bracelets] in the grass. And I asked him what the colored wristbands were and his answer was, I have no idea. I've never seen them before.” (30:56–31:02)

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