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Ted Cruz Tells Sean Hannity Transporting Migrants Is Illegal – but Advocates for It Anyway
Yahoo news ^ | Katie Campione

Posted on 09/18/2022 12:02:05 AM PDT by NoLibZone

Texas Senator Ted Cruz argued during a Friday appearance on Fox News that transporting migrants across state lines could be illegal — yet still praised the recent actions of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and advocated for more similar moves.

Cruz, who is a lawyer and graduate of Harvard Law School, was asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday to weigh in on the situation “from a legal standpoint.”

“Let’s say I went down to the border and I brought a big truck with me, and I picked up a bunch of illegal immigrants, and I started transporting them across the country,” Hannity said. “Would I or would I not likely be arrested for human trafficking and would it be illegal to do that for me, if I did that?”

Cruz was clear in his response: “For you, a citizen, you could easily be arrested. Although, to be honest, Joe Biden’s Justice Department wouldn’t arrest you.”

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It seems the DNC’s newfound position is that moving illegal immigrants within the United States is human trafficking and illegal. I sure hope they continue to stick with this!
1 posted on 09/18/2022 12:02:05 AM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

And neither Hannity nor Cruz can shut their mouths about it


2 posted on 09/18/2022 12:04:43 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: NoLibZone

with selective prosecution

tyranny


3 posted on 09/18/2022 12:05:29 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: NoLibZone

No person is illegal. Love has no borders. Hate has no home here.


4 posted on 09/18/2022 12:06:04 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: NoLibZone

We get it. Everything we do is illegal, but it’s legal for them.
So 2 million illegals transported all over by them is ok.
50 by us is kidnapping.


5 posted on 09/18/2022 12:11:40 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: NoLibZone
“Let’s say I went down to the border and I brought a big truck with me, and I picked up a bunch of illegal immigrants, and I started transporting them across the country,” Hannity said.

The headline is a gross distortion of the facts. Hannity's thoughtless hypothetical is nowhere near the situation being discussed.

The people being transported were not "a bunch of illegal immigrants... picked up at the border." They were processed by Border Patrol and Immigration and given desk appearance tickets for immigration court. After that, they were free to move around the country on the promise to return to court on their assigned dates.

-PJ

6 posted on 09/18/2022 12:19:06 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Immigration crisis ? What immigration crisis ? THE BORDER IS SECURE.


7 posted on 09/18/2022 12:34:40 AM PDT by oldbrowser (Immigration crisis ? What immigration crisis ? THE BORDER IS SECURE.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Great post.


8 posted on 09/18/2022 12:38:07 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: NoLibZone

Nobody ever accused Hannity and Cruz of being very bright. Idiots.


9 posted on 09/18/2022 12:43:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Texas is NOT a border town for freeloading RAT voters. It's my home!!!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I never wanted to buy the world a Coke.


10 posted on 09/18/2022 12:52:57 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Shut up buffalo butt. ;)


11 posted on 09/18/2022 1:22:45 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Migrants, possibly

Foreign invaders, who just by being in the US violated federal law and are now felons, probably not.


12 posted on 09/18/2022 3:00:56 AM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Cancun Cruz. What a Joke of a Senator.
And Hannity is way past his sell by date..


13 posted on 09/18/2022 4:02:20 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: NoLibZone
transporting migrants across state lines could be illegal

I thought he was the legal expert.

14 posted on 09/18/2022 4:09:46 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: NoLibZone

It’s only illegal if they are forcibly moved across state lines. Asking if they’d like to go and then accepting is nothing more than a ride.


15 posted on 09/18/2022 4:18:15 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: NoLibZone

What teddy really meant was it is only illegal when republicans do it. He knows the unwritten rule is democrats never have the law applied to them.


16 posted on 09/18/2022 5:03:15 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: NoLibZone

Don’t ya just love this when one of the elected senators can pick and choose which law he feels was broken only to hamper the people who are trying to solve the problem? I have zero use for Mr Cruz and less for Mr Hannity. Maybe, just maybe, a United States senator should be on the front steps of the capital DAILY talking about illegal aliens. Maybe the highly trained Harvard dude didn’t learn what the term ‘illegal’ means?????? The country is lost.


17 posted on 09/18/2022 5:07:53 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: NoLibZone

The Biden administration has been transporting illegals across the country by the millions. Therefore, it is engaging in human trafficking.

The Biden administration has been allowing illegals to flood into the country by the millions, and that is definitely illegal.

Why is one illegal action involving illegal immigration exalted above another illegal action involving illegal immigration?

And all the raped, robbed, murdered Americans by illegals is censored by the MSM.


18 posted on 09/18/2022 5:15:48 AM PDT by odawg
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To: NoLibZone

Migrate them back to Central America and the Middle East where they came from.


19 posted on 09/18/2022 5:16:40 AM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I’m surprised Hannity allowed Cruz time to answer.


20 posted on 09/18/2022 5:17:41 AM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
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