Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

And as we get ready for a new year, it's important that we take a look back at some of the biggest

stories of this past year.

Some of the biggest conversations that Senator Ted Cruz and I had,

and that's exactly what we're going to do.

Give you some of those big stories and things to look forward to

or issues that you may need to be paying attention to heading

into 2024.

Senator, you're at the border.

You are there where Title 42 has literally just expired.

What does this mean for the country and what have you seen today?

Well, Ben, you and I are recording this.

It is right now 12.14 a.m. Friday morning, title 42, expired at midnight.

So for 14 minutes, the last legal authority the Biden administration was using to deport illegal

aliens is no longer in effect.

From the first day of the Biden presidency until today,

we've seen over six and a half million people cross into this country,

the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country. As of right now it is about to get much, much worse.

And so I flew down this afternoon, Thursday afternoon, and came to the southern border with

three other senators, with Roger Marshall, with John Hoven, and Ted Bud.

And the four of us wanted to see firsthand what is happening here. We wanted to be

here for the expiration of Title 42 to let the American people know what is happening and

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