During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” Thursday night, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas launched a forceful rebuke of the Democratic Party, accusing its members of stoking hostility toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and endangering their lives.
Host Sean Hannity pointed to what he described as indifference from the left regarding the safety of ICE officers, saying, “Senator, it sounds to me like they have no problem on the left putting these guys’ lives in jeopardy. That is outrageous to me, and I frankly think we should pass legislation against it.”
Cruz responded, “Yeah, look, that kind of rhetoric is really dangerous, and it’s really harmful.” He went on to condemn Democratic leaders for what he described as a pattern of animosity toward law enforcement, noting that the push to eliminate ICE and the police has become mainstream within the party. “And we’ve seen Democrats for a number of years now, number one, be openly hostile and antagonistic to the police, call for abolishing the police, call for abolishing ICE. There you’ve got Michelle Wu, the Democrat mayor of Boston, comparing ICE agents to Nazis. I mean that is hateful rhetoric. And you’ve got Hakeem Jeffries — this is the Democrat leader in the House calling for unmasking, identifying these ICE agents. It is not at all subtle what he is calling for. And this is a party that embraces violence. They don’t believe in law and order….”
He didn’t hold back in further denouncing what he sees as a deep-rooted disregard by Democrats for the victims of illegal immigration and human trafficking. “I mean, that’s disgusting. But it shows the contempt they have. They don’t care about these people. These are the same Democrats that didn’t care for the last four years that every day, we had little boys and little girls being sexually assaulted, physically assaulted by human traffickers, no Democrat could be bothered to care. They didn’t care about the Americans being murdered, about the women being raped by illegal immigrants because to them, it’s all about power. And every illegal helps them stay in power. They’re a future Democrat vote. And I got to say, that is — it is sad to see. I’d actually like a reasonable opposition party and not a party that’s just based on rage and hate and anger. And sadly, that’s who today’s Democrats have become.”
{Matzav.com}
