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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claimed Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is only going to the southwestern border region this week to undercut a planned visit by former President Donald Trump next week.

I mean, 91 days ago, she was named as border czar, in charge of the border crisis, and she demonstrated strong leadership by doing not a damn thing, by going nowhere near the border, by doing everything she could to hide from the crisis, Cruz told Fox News America Reports.

Now frankly, thats the same thing Joe Biden is doing, the senator continued. Shes emulating the president in hiding from the crisis, and so suddenly President Trump is going to the border and they realized, Oh, crap, we gotta do something.

Harris is scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday. The vice president has come under pressure from lawmakers of both parties to travel to the region amid a surge in illegal immigration that has seen apprehensions by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reach highs not seen in more than 20 years.

However, Cruz argued that by traveling to El Paso, Harris was avoiding what he called the locus of the crisis hundreds of miles away in the Rio Grande Valley.

Chicago, Illinois is closer to Washington DC, than El Paso is to McAllen, the senator said. And so shes going where the height of the problem isnt.

Kamala, you need to go to the Rio Grande Valley, Cruz continued. Kamala, you need to go to McAllen. Kamala, you need to go to the Donna tent facility, which is the tent city your administration has built that is massively over capacity, that has kids in cages. You need to look at the children in cages that you and Joe Biden put there in a way that is endangering their safety and subjecting them to abuse and sexual assault.

Cruz went on to claim that Harris was not traveling to the area because she doesnt want the cameras to see the Joe Biden cages with kids in cages.

Trump is scheduled to visit the border region on June 30 alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has declared a disaster in 34 counties along or near the border and announced earlier this month that he plans to construct a border wall.

After months of ignoring the crisis at the Southern Border, it is great that we got Kamala Harris to finally go and see the tremendous destruction and death that theyve createda direct result of Biden ending my very tough but fair Border policies, Trump said in a statement after the Harris trip was confirmed.

Harris and Biden were given the strongest Border in American history. And now, it is by far the worst in American history, the former president added. If Governor Abbott and I werent going there next week, she would have never gone!

In a second statement late Wednesday, Trump warned that [t]here has never been, in our Countrys history, a Border catastrophe like what is currently taking place at our Southern Border.

All Biden had to do is leave it the way it was, by far the strongest Southern Border our Country has ever had, he continued. Millions of people will now be streaming into our Country unchecked, unvetted, and unknown. Other countries are emptying their prisons with their worst criminals flowing into our Country. Drugs, gangs, and fugitives are pouring in every day. Hospitals, schools, communities, and police are overwhelmed. This is far more than a crisis, the former president concluded.

[O]ur Country is being destroyed!

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