A record number of unaccompanied minors at the southern border of the United States.

Miners that we were told would not be held in detention facilities anymore, now overflowing those facilities.

A crisis, you might call it at the border, but the Biden administration would not call it a crisis.

We'll get into what's really going on. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. Senator, there is one issue above all that is

dominating right now. It happens to have a lot to do with your state.

There is no transparency whatsoever on this. You're having liberal reporters telling people that

they had greater access under Trump, under Obama. Right now they're being shut out. What is going

on at the border? Well, it's a crisis, and it's not complicated to call it that.

We are seeing the volume of illegal crossings rising dramatically. Last month of the month of

February, we had over 100,000 illegal immigrants detained. We are seeing in particular a crisis

with children. We're seeing unaccompanied children the

numbers rising and rising and rising. We're seeing detention facilities that are overcrowded,

that are packed, that are at, you know, six, seven hundred percent capacity. And it keeps getting worse.

And there are several things to understand about it.

Number one, why it's happening.

This is the direct result of a series of decisions the Biden administration has made.

So Joe Biden gets elected.

He gets sworn in on January 20th. Within days, he announces,

we're stopping construction of the wall. Yeah. So border wall done. Within days, the Biden administration

returns to catch and release. Now, what is catch and release? Catch and release is the policy. It was the policy during the Obama administration, where

when an illegal immigrant was caught, they'd be given a court date sometime in the future.

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