During an interview this week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) explained how President Biden’s policies have boosted the profits of Mexican drug cartels.
Cruz made the comments while speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters. Cruz demanded justice for the two Americans recently murdered in Mexico, adding that Biden’s lack of “responsible presidential leadership” had helped create the situation.
“Joe Biden created the chaos at the border. Joe Biden stopped building the wall. He reinstated Catch and Release. He pulled out of Remain in Mexico,” Cruz said. “And what Joe Biden has done is he’s turned these vicious narco-terrorists into multi-billionaires.”
Cruz then pointed to a New York Times report from last year that found that the Mexican drug cartels went from making $500 million a year from human smuggling in 2018 to making $13 billion from human smuggling in 2022, a 2,500% increase.
“Joe Biden becoming president is the best thing that ever happened to the Mexican drug cartels,” Cruz said. “Last year, we had the highest number of drug overdoses in the history of our country, over 100,000 drug overdoses in the United States, the majority of which came from Chinese fentanyl flooding across this border. Joe Biden and the Democrats are responsible for turning these vicious murderers into multibillionaires. We need to bankrupt them, we need to put them out of business. And the people responsible for these murders need to be brought to justice!”
