GOP Senators Detail Horrifying Late-Night Border Encounters: Cartels and Smugglers Taunted Us
Just hours after President Joe Biden downplayed the unprecedented border crisis he spawned, 18 Republican senators made a midnight trip to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to expose what the White House media blackout is…

Just hours after President Joe Biden downplayed the unprecedented border crisis he spawned, 18 Republican senators made a midnight trip to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to expose what the White House media blackout is hiding: a festering public health, humanitarian and national security catastrophe.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Mike lee of Utah were joined by 16 other U.S. senators who decried the appalling conditions they witnessed at the border in Mission, Texas.
During their visit, human traffickers and cartel members on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande heckled the senators and mocked the exhausted, overwhelmed Border Patrol officials who protect the area.
“We have been listening to and seeing cartel members, human traffickers right on the other side of the river, waving flashlights, yelling and taunting Americans, taunting the Border Patrol, because they know that under the current policy of the Biden administration they can flood over here,” Cruz said in a Twitter video posted Friday at 2:15 a.m. Eastern time.
“They’re getting paid , $5,000 a person to smuggle them into the country, and our policy is when they smuggle them in, the Biden administration releases them,” he said.
Cruz urged the Biden administration to stop denying the emergency it inflamed with its


