Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) highlighted the devastating impact of how President Joe Biden’s policies have fueled an explosion in the profits that Mexican drug cartels are seeing from human smuggling.
Speaking with Jesse Watters on Fox News earlier this week, Cruz called for justice to be delivered to those who murdered two Americans in Mexico, adding that Biden’s lack of “responsible presidential leadership” had contributed to 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.”
The 52-year-old senator then highlighted a report from The New York Times last year that revealed 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.
