A record number of unaccompanied miners 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 they had a 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 and it's it's not complicated call it that we are seeing the volume of illegal crossings rising dramatically last month of the month of February we had over a hundred thousand illegal immigrants detained.

We are seeing in particular 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 at you know six 700% capacity.

And it keeps getting worse and there's 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 to get sworn in on January 20th with in days he announces we're stopping construction of the wall. So border wall done.

And days the Biden administration returns to catch and release now what is catching release catch releases the policy of the policy during the Obama administration.

Where when an illegal immigrant was caught they'd be given a court date sometime in the future and let go and said hey come to court and lo and behold a whole bunch of them never show up this is not complicated to figure out.

And one of the most significant things the Trump administration did was and catch and release.

But the most important thing that the Biden administration did is they ended the remain in Mexico policy.

Now what is the remain in Mexico policy it was one of the biggest foreign policy and immigration victories of the entire Trump administration.

Negotiated a deal with the government of Mexico so the vast majority of the immigrants crossing illegally into this country are not Mexicans right.

They're central Americans now who are crossing through Mexico. So they're illegal immigrants in Mexico crossing Mexico southern border illegally to get to the United States.

They're largely coming from Guatemala El Salvador couple other country.

And they're going to have a lot of violent and they're going to have a lot of violence that have a lot of criminal activity that have a lot of poverty and so they're fleeing that in large numbers.

The remaining Mexico policy was an agreement with Mexico where where if these folks come and want to apply for asylum in the United States.

They stay in Mexico while the case is proceeding.

And what the Biden administration did is it took that really important international agreement and it essentially ripped it up said, Nope, we don't want to remain in Mexico.

We want him here and we want to let him go.

And that consequence we are saying massive numbers of illegal immigrants being released into the United States.

And in turn, look, if you're sitting at home in Guatemala and you're trying to decide whether to come when you see people being released when you see people getting to stay.

That's that's when you jump in a caravan and head north.

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