Cruz Spars With Agriculture Secretary on Border Security

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : During a Senate hearing titled, "Immigrant Farmworkers are Essential to Feeding America," Cruz pressed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on border security.
66% : They were poor last year, and we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.
65% : Mr. Secretary, last year there was a pandemic, and we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.
58% : The secretary then asked why the then-Republican-led Senate did not pass a bill that would let immigrant farmworkers earn a pathway to citizenship as he noted some lawmakers have called for securing the border before passing legislation to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
48% : He asked Vilsack if his agency was in charge of border security, migrant detention centers, prosecution of human traffickers.
42% : However, Cruz took issue with Vilsack's explanation for why there is an ongoing surge of migrants at the southern border, noting that Vilsack pointed to poverty as a driving reason for the northern migration.

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