From the rest of the article, Cruz says (trying to excerpt a lot):
“Of course, we should secure the border. We must. Our broken immigration system.... Human traffickers, drug traffickers, and criminal cartels are responsible for suffering and misery and death...
Sen. Cruz said the answer should not involve punishing people who legally cross the border each day and others who would be impacted economically, like farmers, ranchers, manufacturers and small business owners.
“Closing legal points of entry would harm American commerce and legal transit between Mexico and the United States, and leave coyotes and human traffickers to roam free in the wilderness of our unsecured border.
“It is time for Democrats in Congress to finally do their jobs. We must build a wall, enforce the laws currently on the books....”
skooz - see post 49