{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/blogs/e-newsletter-week-of-october-6th", "e-Newsletter: Week of October 6th", "2023-10-06", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "Ted Cruz", "C001098", "www.cruz.senate.gov", "cruz", "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Time and time again, Joe Biden has consistently ignored the crisis unfolding at our southern border. Now that blue states are finally experiencing the disastrous consequences of the Biden administration\u2019s broken border policies, they care. The hypocrisy is palpable. The Biden administration recently admitted that they must build twenty miles of border wall despite efforts to halt all construction immediately after he was sworn into office. Enough is enough. Texas deserves better and I will continue to fight to secure our border.\n\nOn Tuesday, I joined Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss the importance of unifying against the left-wing radicals that are destroying our country.\n\n\u201cI'm feeling many of the sentiments that Republicans and conservatives across this country are feeling. On the one hand, the House of Representatives is the one bright spot we've got. \u2026 I don't like seeing chaos. I do hope we can come together and say, these crazy Marxist radical leftists that are destroying our country\u2014we are unified against. I don\u2019t know who the next Speaker of the House will be, but I hope they focus on something I called for nearly a year ago \u2026 impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas.\u201d\n\nOn Wednesday, I attended the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing where I questioned the radical Marxist views of Judge Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, a nominee for the federal bench.\n\n\u201cI think your fellow nominees owe you a debt of gratitude. Many Biden nominees have been extreme, but your record is so far out of the mainstream that you have attracted virtually all of the questions. I was particularly intrigued by your statement \u2026 you said you are not in fact, a Marxist. And then you said, and I wrote down, \u2018I have not praised Marxist ideas.\u2019 Now you know, in law there is the fact of evidence. \u2026 [You wrote] an article that is entitled centralized property theory \u2026 on the front page of your law school newspaper. \u2026 In 2020, you gave a speech entitled reflections on equity and privilege. \u2026 Now that\u2019s Marxism in 2020.\u201d\n\nOn Wednesday, as the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, I questioned the nominee for FAA administrator, Michael Whitaker. This is a crucially important role as three million passengers board commercial flights every day going in and out of U.S. airports with confidence that they will arrive safely to their destinations.\n\n\u201cWhen it comes to aviation safety, the buck stops with the FAA. This is a crucially important role. The next administrator will face serious challenges in rebuilding the FAA after 18 months without a Senate-confirmed leader. They must address the challenges facing the FAA: staffing critical air traffic control facilities, modernizing antiquated air traffic systems, and bringing employees back in person after three years of telework.\u201d\n\nLater Wednesday evening, I joined Mike Warren of Fox 7 News Austin to discuss my bill the Agent Raul Gonzales Officer Safety Act. The bill would protect the brave men and women in law enforcement by criminalizing fleeing from agents or officers in a high-speed chase.\n\n\u201c[The Agent Raul Gonzales Officer Safety Act is] named after Border Patrol Agent Raul Gonzales, who was killed in December of last year. \u2026 An illegal immigrant was fleeing from him and his ATV ended up flipping over, and killing him. This bill provides very significant jail time for failing to yield to a border patrol agent because that is endangering not just border patrol agents and law enforcement, but it\u2019s endangering the citizens of South Texas and citizens across our state.\u201d\n\nOn Thursday morning, I joined Lawrence Jones of Fox & Friends at a diner in North Dallas to discuss the Biden administration\u2019s false sympathy towards the threat of illegal immigration facing Texas and other southern border states.\n\n\u201cBlue states are finally seeing the consequences of [illegal immigration]. \u2026 What do they think 7.6 million has done to Texas and the other border states? They are experiencing now what we\u2019ve been seeing for a long time, \u2026 a crisis that is out of control. I do not believe for a minute that Joe Biden wants to fix it.\u201d\n\nRest assured, I won\u2019t let up in this fight to keep Texas safe and secure our nation. God Bless!\n\nKeep Texas Strong,\n\nMORE FROM SEN. 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