{"id":1026475,"date":"2021-11-18T07:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1026475"},"modified":"2021-11-18T07:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:13:59","slug":"ted-cruz-slams-leftist-ftc-nominee-alvaro-bedoya-over-support-for-crt-opposition-to-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-slams-leftist-ftc-nominee-alvaro-bedoya-over-support-for-crt-opposition-to-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Slams Leftist FTC Nominee Alvaro Bedoya over Support for CRT, Opposition to ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fted-cruz-slams-leftist-ftc-nominee-alvaro-bedoya-over-support-for-crt-opposition-to-ice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1026475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled the Biden administration\u2019s far-left FTC nominee Alvaro Bedoya over his radical views on immigration law enforcement, and his apparent opposition to efforts to roll back the racist doctrine of Critical Race Theory at a hearing on his nomination before the Senate Commerce Committee today.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cruz went through some of Bedoya\u2019s far-left tweets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/12\/biden-pushes-soros-linked-far-left-radical-alvaro-bedoya-for-ftc-commissioner\/\">which were reported on by Breitbart News ahead of the hearing<\/a>, blasting Bedoya as a \u201cleft-wing activist\u201d and a \u201cprovocateur.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18721066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Alvaro-Bedoya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18721066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Alvaro-Bedoya.jpg\" alt=\"Biden&#039;s nominee for the FTC, Alvaro Bedoya\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biden\u2019s nominee for the FTC, Alvaro Bedoya (Internet Education Foundation\/Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration has nominated a number of extreme nominees. Radicals who have advocated for abolishing the police, to the senior officials currently at the Justice Department,\u201d said Sen. Cruz.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18595770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236325921.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18595770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236325921.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus on November 03, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA banking regulator who trained in the Soviet Union, and advocates nationalizing the banks and wants to bankrupt thousands of businesses across America. And unfortunately, Mr. Bedoya, as I look at your record you fall firmly in that line. I see the record of someone who has been a left-wing activist, a provocateur, a bomb-thrower, and an extremist. So I want to take a minute to explore your views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not talking about the things you say when you\u2019re wearing a suit and tie, talking about fourth amendment violations, I\u2019m talking about what you angrily tweet out to the world. I refer you to a tweet on February 26, 2021: \u2018It is time to call ICE what it is: an out-of-control domestic surveillance agency that peers into all of our lives.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Senator went on to discuss Bedoya\u2019s opposition to local law enforcement cooperating with federal immigration authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou also have, on April 12, 2021, a tweet that is certainly not lacking in subtlety: \u2018Maryland police have no business working with ICE.&nbsp;Maryland police have no business working with ICE.&nbsp;Maryland police have no business working with ICE.&nbsp;Maryland police have no business working with ICE.&nbsp;Maryland police have no business working with ICE.\u2019 So apparently you\u2019re calling on state law enforcement to refuse to cooperate in any way with federal immigration enforcement. How do you explain these tweets? Are you with the more radical members of the squad in the house, and are you an advocate of abolishing ICE?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not, Senator. That last message was rhetoric,\u201d adding that he was simply advocating for a bill requiring the government to get a warrant before scanning faces on drivers\u2019 licenses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI have occasionally used rhetoric, sir,\u201d repeated Bedoya.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz then delved further into Bedoya\u2019s preoccupation with immigration issues, which extended to attacking Democrat congressional leader Rep.&nbsp;Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who had called for decorum from colleagues during a debate on immigration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDecorum? Thousands of latino kids still forcibly separated from their parents, some in cages, and you go on CNN to ask for decorum from members of the Hispanic Caucus. You should apologize to those members and to the latino community,\u201d Bedoya\u2019s tweet reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re also blasting Democrats who are not sufficiently extreme to your liking when it comes to immigration, is that right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think family separation was abhorrent. The kids at the border looked like my cousins.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cruz went on to ask Bedoya if he was similarly critical of the Biden administration. Bedoya said he had criticized the Obama administration, but did not give a clear answer on whether he had similarly criticized Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz then noted Bedyoa retweeted MSNBC host Joy Reid calling former President Trump a \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t recall sharing that. I don\u2019t believe the prior administration was a white supremacist administration,\u201d insisted Bodeya.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz then noted Bodeya\u2019s retweeting of John B. King disagreeing with the Senator\u2019s contention that Critical Race Theory should not be taught in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Bodeya responded that he believed \u201chistory should be taught,\u201d but disagreed with the claim that \u201call white people are racist.\u201d He went on to say that he hadn\u2019t \u201cgiven great thought to Critical Race Theory before this hearing,\u201d despite retweeting opposition to Cruz\u2019s call for it to be removed from schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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