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Ted Cruz: “Yesterday, Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, was asked…”

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

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On the Road in Mexico Urging the Mexican Government to get Serious about Defeating Cartels plus D...

Published | Video Starts at 11:00

What, when you say this, is it lip service or is there a sense of like, hey, maybe you guys can help us do something we can't even do ourselves? So unfortunately, the response was flat out no. Yesterday, Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, was asked about my trip, about the offer I made for the United States to assist Mexico in eliminating the cartels, and her answer was, absolutely not. No, we do not want America's help. This is Mexico. We will handle it internally. Essentially, we don't want the Yankee gringos in our country. (11:00–11:13)

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