{"id":1559535,"date":"2022-07-18T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559535"},"modified":"2022-07-18T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:49:12","slug":"ted-cruz-talks-why-migrants-are-tagged-with-wristbands-horrors-of-rape-trees-after-southern-border-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-talks-why-migrants-are-tagged-with-wristbands-horrors-of-rape-trees-after-southern-border-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Talks Why Migrants Are Tagged With Wristbands, Horrors Of \u2018Rape Trees\u2019 After Southern Border Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-talks-why-migrants-are-tagged-with-wristbands-horrors-of-rape-trees-after-southern-border-visit%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=1559535&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>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-senators-propose-commemorating-end-of-roe-by-designating-june-as-month-of-life\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-TX) on Friday said he witnessed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/illegal-immigration\">migrants<\/a> attempting to cross over the porous southern border wearing wristbands that indicate how much money they owe the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mexican-military-helicopter-crashes-killing-14-during-the-operation-to-capture-drug-cartel-kingpin-report\">drug cartels.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cruz-cornyn-colleagues-to-visit-texas-mexico-border-amidst-unrelenting-illegal-immigration-crisis\">visited<\/a> the U.S.-Mexico border and surrounding areas last week, along with Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-cornyn\">John Cornyn (R-TX)<\/a> and other colleagues. The former presidential contender described what they witnessed as an \u201cabsolute disaster,\u201d \u201cinhumane,\u201d and \u201chorrific,\u201d slamming the Biden administration for apparent refusal to act and save lives.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants are wearing different colored wristbands to represent how many thousands of dollars they owe the drug cartels, Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&#038;v=759900988380541\">said<\/a> at a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw dozens of wristbands, colored wristbands, that the cartels put on the illegal immigrants to mark how many thousands of dollars those children owe the cartels, to ensure that those kids keep working for the cartels for years to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-border-idUSKBN2B12E6\">reported<\/a> on the color-coded wristbands in 2021. The report said the bands were widely used by powerful cartels and smugglers to track migrants paying money to illegally cross into the U.S. The bands were promptly ripped off after migrants successfully crossed over the border illegally, agents reportedly witnessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Matthew Dyman, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told Reuters that the \u201cinformation on the bracelets represents a multitude of data that is used by smuggling organizations, such as payment status or affiliation with smuggling groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, on Friday, also described the horror of so-called \u201crape trees,\u201d something he said he learned about for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe traffickers would violently rape young women and then hang their undergarments in the tree as a trophy, mocking law enforcement that there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it,\u201d Cruz said, as first <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/crime\/hold-rape-tree\">reported<\/a> by JustTheNews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something we can do to stop it: we can enforce the damn law,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are the Democrats?\u201d Cruz pressed the media, adding that the reason President Joe Biden won\u2019t visit the border is because he\u00a0\u201cknows if he comes, the TV cameras will follow, and their hope is to hide the human suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Joe Biden body bags keep piling up,\u201d Cruz slammed.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz on July 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cruz-cornyn-colleagues-to-visit-texas-mexico-border-amidst-unrelenting-illegal-immigration-crisis\">announced<\/a> his visit to the Rio Grande Valley, intending to \u201csurvey the current state\u201d of the Southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexans are the front line of our border crisis,\u201d the senator said. \u201cOur communities suffer from the rampant influx of drugs and illegal immigration, and we suffer from the crime that accompanies it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must do more as a country to secure our borders, but at the very least we cannot backslide by removing the current Remain in Mexico policy that is helping our Border Patrol agents manage the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants coming to the border every month,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s not just a humanitarian and drug crisis \u2013 there are documented cases of convicted criminals and suspected terrorists trying to exploit our open border,\u201d the senator added. \u201cFor Americans to have real confidence in our government\u2019s ability to keep our nation safe, we need to see a secure southern border. As we visit the brave men and women of the Border Patrol next week, we hope to gain further insight into what steps we as elected legislators can take to secure our border and secure our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn said the crisis \u201cis not getting better because the Biden Administration is simply not enforcing the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sheer numbers of people coming across the border are keeping the Border Patrol from their primary job, which allows drug cartels to move illicit drugs that kill thousands of Americans every year,\u201d Cornyn added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&#038;v=759900988380541\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&#038;v=759900988380541<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Friday said he witnessed\u00a0migrants attempting to cross over the porous southern border wearing wristbands that indicate how much money they owe the infamous drug cartels. Cruz visited the U.S.-Mexico border and surrounding areas last week, along with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and other colleagues. The former presidential contender described what &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}