A video shared on social media showed people in the airport chanting, 'Free the children!' as a smiling Ted Cruz stood uncomfortably in the terminal.
William CummingsWASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz was confronted at the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday by protesters who decried the detention of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I'm sorry, we're trying to catch a flight," Cruz, who was heading to Houston, told the committee members as they introduced themselves. "I represent the biggest Latino community in the district and we are horrified by what is happening with the caging of children and the separation of families," she told Cruz."I don't know how you can live with yourself supporting these policies.""Kids are dying and families are being separated, and it's disgusting," she told Cruz."Please do something to stop it. You have a power.
Cruz argued that under current policies,"We are incentivizing human traffickers and drug traffickers to take children into this country." He said DNA testing conducted in the Rio Grande sector showed that nearly 30% of the cases showed no biological connection between the children and the people they were traveling with, repeating a figure he cited during an address from the Senate floor earlier this month.
In his testimony before the House Oversight Committee this month, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan echoed Cruz's concerns about what he called"child recycling," or"adults that are bringing children with them who are not their own."
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