Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party this week over the renewed explosion of illegal immigration on the U.S. southern border, saying that they “empower the cartels” to make billions of dollars through their illicit activities while ignoring the suffering of the American people.

Cruz made the remarks during an episode of his “Verdict” podcast this week with co-host Ben Ferguson while discussing his recent appearance at the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival.

Cruz noted that there has been a roughly 400% increase in illegal immigration from August 2020 under the previous administration to more than 200,000 illegal alien counters in 2021 and now closer to a quarter of a million encounters this year.

“That same ratio is there every single month, October, November, December, January, February, all the way through, you see numbers that are about a quarter of what they are now, a 4x increase,” Cruz said. “And that’s what happens when you have open border Democrats who empower the cartels and among other things make billions of dollars for the cartels in human trafficking and drug trafficking not concerning themselves with the death and suffering and misery that results from it.”

Cruz then blasted New York City Mayor Eric Adams for claiming that thousands of illegal aliens sent to his city are ruining the city, noting that small towns in Texas receive more migrants and have significantly less resources than America’s largest city.

“Eagle Pass is a small town on the southern border on the Rio Grande River. It has a population of about 28,000 people so it’s a little town. On one single day, last week, more than 4,000 illegal immigrants came into Eagle Pass – on one day. Now 4,000 people in a town of 28,000 people is about 14% of the population. About 14% of the population of the city came illegally into Eagle Pass on one day,” Cruz said.

He continued, “What would that be in New York City? New York City has a population of about 9 million people. If 14% of New York City came into New York on one day, that would be 1,260,000 people invading New York on a single day. Mayor Adams says 110,000 people over two and a half years is a crisis destroying the city. Well, how would he feel about 1,260,000 people entering the city on a single day? That’s what Eagle Pass saw on one day last week. And you know what? They saw thousands more the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day. And these Democrats do not give a damn.”

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The hosts of ABC’s midday talk show “The View” aired their grievances about a recent poll showing former President Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in a head-to-head match-up.

The cohosts addressed the poll in question — which showed Trump holding a ten-point lead over Biden — during Monday’s broadcast.

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The View freaks out and attacks a poll from their own network (ABC) because it shows Trump up 10 points over Biden.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin calls the poll "an outlier."
But she warns that Biden has a reelection problem with poor approval ratings and other things. pic.twitter.com/2qr5AEnbSR

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 25, 2023

Republican cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to qualify the results, suggesting that the poll was “an outlier” — but she did note that Biden certainly has some weak points going into his 2024 reelection campaign.

Griffin pointed to his consistently low job approval ratings — and concerns from both sides of the political aisle about his advanced age and mental acuity.

Cohost Sunny Hostin turned the attack on Trump then, arguing that the polls meant nothing as long as Trump’s trials had not yet begun.

Ana Navarro suggested that the pollsters had been “high” when they gave their responses, and went on to claim that the economy was in better shape under Biden — despite other polls showing that nearly half of Americans believed that they were worse off financially since Biden had taken office.

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Whoopi says the "problem" is the "messaging" from the news media is off and they're not striking enough fear of Trump getting reelected.
Sunny is forced to read a legal note saying ABC's pollsters were not "high" when conducting the poll and they abruptly ended the segment. pic.twitter.com/SaHmFVpyIL

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 25, 2023

Whoopi Goldberg weighed in next, blaming the media for not doing enough to scare people off from voting for former President Trump and suggesting that if media outlets were better at “messaging,” no one would support him anyway.

Hostin spoke up again then, saying that the network had called on her to read a legal note — after which she conceded that the people polled had not, in fact, been “high” (as Navarro had suggested) when they gave their responses on the ABC poll.