'This is Not a Zoo, Sir': Ted Cruz Posts Video of Confrontation With Staffer at Border Facility

[DonViejo]

By Colby HallMar 29th, 2021, 7:00 am

Senator Ted Cruz recently led a delegation of 18 Republican senators to the border facilities in Donna, Texas, and posted a video that he shot of at least one crowded holding area, ignoring the pleas of an unnamed staffer asking the Texas senator to respect the facilities rules.

At issue is a seasonal rise in undocumented migrants approaching the Southern U.S. border, largely coming from Central America, which is being used as a political cudgel against the Biden Administration by many Republican elected officials. The video shot and published by Cruz is clearly flouting the rules of the facilities, as an unidentified staffer tries to intercede while Cruz makes political points for viewers to hear.

Cruz uses the specious term “political operative” to describe the staffer who asks the Senator to “please give dignity to the people,” and “please respect the rules.” When Cruz asks if putting so many individuals in a crowded room during a pandemic is dignified, the staffer says “this is not a zoo, sir.”

Link to tweet

The political argument being made by Cruz and others is that President Joe Biden’s political rhetoric during his successful bid for the White House encouraged the flood of migrants, which has overcrowded facilities to inhumane levels and become a crisis. While many in the media have been quick to label the current situation a “crisis,” a leaked internal memo from the Associated Press dispassionately explains why it does not rise to a crisis.

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[katmondoo]

1. FU Cruz

[bullimiami]

2. again out to prove that he is a vile dick. political operative? thats ted in spades. for 4 years

not a fucking peep against the inhumane treatment of these people.

now, with biden working to improve a situation ted helped create, political theater.

one thing trump nailed. lyin ted.

[jcgoldie]

3. Why did they have to mess with him about going to Cancun?

Just send him back there please where he can do less damage and he can lay there like a beached whale.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Mendacious Ted is finally worried about housing conditions for them--I wonder why it took so long.

[riversedge]

7. as you know it is fake concern.

[MiHale]

5. Pandemic?!!?...What pandemic? ... you mean it's NOT a hoax?

[HAB911]

6. GIVE HER A RAISE

[CTyankee]

8. Just hearing his voice AAAARRRGGG