During a press briefing in El Salvador on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was asked if he would ask El Salvador President Bukele to accept non-Salvadoran migrants deported from the US.
00:00In your meeting with Mr. Bukele, are you going to ask him to receive migrants that are now detained in the U.S., migrants from different nationalities, as it happened before with the Venezuelans?
00:18Well, I will say President Trump and President Bukele have a very good relationship, and they have been negotiating the terms of deportations from the United States to El Salvador.
00:30President Bukele has been an important partner in responding to what has been a crisis in the United States for the last four years.
00:38Unfortunately, the previous president of the United States, Joe Biden, under his administration, we had effectively an open border for four years.
00:48We saw over 12 million illegal immigrants come into the United States.
00:53We saw murderers and rapists and gang members released into America, and we saw countless Americans murdered and the victims of violent crime because of those open borders.
01:05In the United States, the rate of illegal border crossings dropped 99% when President Trump was sworn back into office.
01:19That is the difference between having a leader who will enforce the law and protect your citizens and having a leader who is complicit with open borders.
01:29President Bukele has demonstrated similar leadership here in El Salvador.
01:33In both instances, you have a leader elected by the people who is not going to surrender to the cartels and the criminals, but rather is going to protect the people.
01:44And I think the consequence of that, securing the border in the United States, treating the gang members and the cartels as terrorists, and doing whatever is necessary to keep our citizens safe, I think that's the right approach to public safety.
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