Republican Senator Ted Cruz claims Mexico is ‘helping’ cartels smuggle migrants

US: Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican, said that by providing busses to non-citizens with CBP appointments, the Mexican government is “aiding” drug gangs in their “trafficking” of migrants.

His comments follow the announcement by the Mexican government that non-Mexican people who have been granted asylum in the United States will be able to travel by guided bus from southern Mexico to the border.

Cruz accused Vice government Kamala Harris of collaborating with the government of Mexico to encourage illegal immigration into the United States in a recent edition of his podcast, Verdict. Cruz said that the United States and Mexico coordinated this action to boost the number of migrants entering the nation.

Cruz said on his podcast that “Kamala Harris wants more illegal immigrants in America.” “The government of Mexico is actively aiding and assisting human traffickers by providing bus rides throughout Mexico, along with armed escorts from police and soldiers, to bring illegal immigrants to the border.”

The Texas senator in office offered no proof for his accusations.

The Mexican government said in August that non-Mexican immigrants who have been assigned an asylum appointment in the United States using the CBP One app will have access to a secure passage inside the nation.

The busses will leave from Villahermosa and Tapachula in the south, according to Mexico’s National Institute of Migration.

It seemed like an effort to attract migrants who would otherwise march north to Mexico City or the border to apply for asylum appointments from southern Mexico.

Outside of regular business hours, Newsweek reached out to the Texas Democrats, the Mexican government, and CBP for comments.

“Trump would go as far as using the military to tear children from their mother’s arms and round up migrants into mass detention camps, all after blocking the bipartisan border plan that would have been the strongest investment to secure our border in years,” said Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for the Harris campaign, in a previous statement criticizing GOP immigration policies.

“Vice President Harris believes we need to get that plan done and go even further by bringing Republicans and Democrats together to create an earned pathway to citizenship and strengthen our broken immigration system.”

In a post on X, the previous Twitter platform, Democratic Representative Colin Allred, Cruz’s opponent, stated: “Texans cannot afford six more years of Ted Cruz.”

It happened after Allred received Liz Cheney’s endorsement in the Texas Senate campaign.

According to recent polls, Allred is only just behind the incumbent Republican senator.

A study conducted on Friday and released by Emerson College and The Hill indicates that the race is rather close, with Allred and Cruz tied within the survey’s margin of error. As per the poll, Allred has the backing of 44% of respondents, while Cruz leads by 4 points and has the endorsement of 48%. Eight percent more people are unsure.

In the larger political discourse surrounding immigration, Representative Mark Green attacked Mexico for providing bus transportation and criticized the federal government for implementing CBP One appointments, which immigrants may schedule using an app.

He told Newsweek in September that “the decision to double down and expand access to its unlawful CBP one mass-parole scheme is the opposite of sound immigration enforcement.”

In an attempt to address the issue at the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas Republicans have adopted a tough stance. They have installed concrete barriers and barbed wire, and they have sent busses full of migrants to six sanctuary towns located in blue states.

The Washington Examiner claims that taxpayers have paid $221 million for the transportation of over 120,000 asylum seekers to Democratic-run states north of the border between the United States and Mexico as a result of Governor Greg Abbott’s migrant busing scheme.

But when the buses that were carrying immigrants out of Texas ceased operating, Republicans recently hailed triumph.

After President Joe Biden’s extensive executive action, there aren’t enough migrants to transport across the nation, so the buses have all but ceased operating.