Ted Cruz challenges AOC to 'go see the Biden cages' at the border
By: Katelyn Caralle (MSN)
Wonder if she'll cry.
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Ted Cruz on Wednesday called on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive lawmakers to visit the 'Biden cages' housing migrants during the border crisis.
'Every Democrat who stood up and lamented kids in cages, in the House of Representatives, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, has a famous photo of her grasping her head by the kids in cages,' Cruz said from the Senate floor as he imitated the photo.
'Well, I'm going to give a simple challenge for Representative Ocasio-Cortez and for every Democrat in this body. Go see the Biden cages with your own eyes.'
While campaigning in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez visited a city in West Teas that was housing migrant children under the Trump administration.
During the trip, she was photographed standing near the fence looking visually distraught over the camps. One image showed the then-candidate with her hands over her face, another hugging someone who went on the trip with her.
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Cruz's comments Wednesday appear to challenge the congresswoman to have the same distraught reaction to the continuing migration crisis at the southern border - specifically as an influx of mostly Haitian migrants set up an encampment in Del Rio in the last few weeks.
'Why does Joe Biden refuse to go to the Rio Grande Valley? Because if he goes, the TV cameras will come with him,' Cruz said later in the Senate floor speech. 'Why does Kamala Harris, who's supposed to be the border czar - she's supposed to be in charge of this - why won't she go to the Rio Grande Valley? Because if she went, the TV cameras would come and would show the Biden cages.'
'And the Democrats are counting on the corrupt corporate media to suddenly say nothing to see here,' he added. '15,000 Haitians under a bridge in Del Rio - nothing to see here.'
'Anyone want to know what Joe Biden's favorite ice cream flavor is? That's the news!' Cruz shouted.
The Trump administration received a slew of criticism over its handling of the surge in border crossings - specifically separating children from parents and guardians they crossed with.
There was an outcry over images emerging of 'cages' or fenced-in areas in border facilities where migrants were being kept in close quarters.
Similar images have emerged under Biden's presidency, but have been more ignored - or less criticized - by Democratic politicians.
The 2018 images of Ocasio-Cortez were slammed as a 'staged' 'photo-op' as she vied to take down incumbent Democratic Representative Joe Crowley, who had just finished his 10th term and was running for reelection.
AOC, which the congresswoman is commonly referred to as, said of the images: 'I'll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them.'
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Maybe she can round up Ms. Harris, the border czar, to take with her.
They're going to need directions.
You mean she would have to do actual work, instead of virtue signaling for likes on social media?
Maybe if the illegal immigrants that are being detained pool together all of their money, buy her a first class ticket with limo, and make sure all of the media show up for her dramatics she will come? That is unless a few of her 1% friends need her for an event instead. Follow the money and elitism and she will be there.
AOC ‘cries’ after Democrats thwart Squad attempt to defund Israel’s Iron Dome
What a candyass................
A candyass space shot. I just hope she keeps her word and blows up the entire "infrastructure bill" if she doesn't get her way.
She needs to grow up already. Crying because you didn’t get your way is so toddler like.
Is there an empty parking lot nearby where she can pretend to cry over kids in cages? Performative crying is apparently her only skill.