{"id":302393,"date":"2021-03-24T17:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=302393"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:47:15","slug":"republican-senators-gear-up-for-border-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-senators-gear-up-for-border-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican senators gear up for border visit"},"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\">14<\/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%2Frepublican-senators-gear-up-for-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=302393&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--><div id=\"attachment_2391263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2391263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 MARCH 11: An image of Joe Biden was displayed on a sign before a news conference with House Republicans about U.S.-Mexico border policy outside the U.S. Capitol on March 11, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:40 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, March 24, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and a delegation of his Republican colleagues are headed to the southern border to shine a light on the Biden border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow night, 18 senators are going to be traveling down to the southern border. Traveling down to Texas to see first hand the crisis that is unfolding,\u201d Cruz stated. \u201cTo see first hand the over 100,000 illegal immigrants who were detained last month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group of lawmakers took aim at Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous policies, which have led to illegal immigrants flooding the border and resulted in underage migrants being held in cramped facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also called out efforts by the Democrat administration to keep the mainstream media in the dark about what is really going on under Biden\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2391338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2391338\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2391338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3295.jpeg\" alt=\"Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nomination of Samantha Power to be the next Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Tuesday, March 23, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash\/Pool via AP)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3295.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3296.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3297.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3298.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2391338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ted Cruz listened during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re traveling down there, 18 of us, but something is going to be different on this border trip from previous trips to the border, which is our friends in the media right now are not allowed to come,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cYou\u2019ve been invited. We want you to come. We want the media to be there. We want the American people to see what\u2019s happening, but Joe Biden doesn\u2019t want you to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz also pointed out under three previous administrations, the media has been allowed to document and show the nation what is happening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The facts:<\/p>\n<p>\u2714\ufe0fThe Clinton admin allowed media at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u2714\ufe0fThe Bush admin allowed media at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u2714\ufe0fThe Obama admin allowed media at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u2714\ufe0fThe Trump admin allowed media at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u2716\ufe0fThe Biden admin is engaged in media blackout at the border. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AvjEDtfNJR\">pic.twitter.com\/AvjEDtfNJR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTedCruz\/status\/1374805828633567233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration has issued a gag order, a blackout order, that the media cannot come. For four years, we heard Democrats going on and on about kids in cages,\u201d Cruz stated. \u201cWell, Joe Biden desperately does not want you to see the Biden cages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s media blackout has proven the White House is terrified of showing the American people the truth.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-graham-bidens-call-for-gun-control-wont-solve-problems\/\">Sen. Graham: Biden\u2019s Call For Gun Control Won\u2019t Solve Problems<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 MARCH 11: An image of Joe Biden was displayed on a sign before a news conference with House Republicans about U.S.-Mexico border policy outside the U.S. Capitol &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311097,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3295.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Republican senators gear up for border visit","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3295.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Republican senators gear up for border visit","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302393","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=302393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}