The unpopular Ted Cruz, still wishing he was in Mexico, decided what better way to try to win us back over was to try to mix "undocumented immigration" with "murders, rapists, and child molesters incarcerated in prison" to scare the masses. Cruz, of course, was called out on it.
Just before Cruz introduced an amendment to the Stimulus Bill, the Senate struck down an amendment which would have banned incarcerated persons from receiving stimulus checks. Of course, he had two chances when Republicans were calling the shots to bring this up and did not. But he used this vote to segway into his anti-immigrant bill. Ted seems to have forgotten the stimulus check part of the bill is the SAME bill that has existed the last two times and undocumented immigrants were ineligible too.
He was rightly called out for pandering. But since he decided to use Predator Panic to try to stymie the stimulus bill, Ted Cruz deserves a nomination.
https://ktxs.com/news/local/both-texas-senators-voted-against-mislabeled-covid-relief-bill
(See the embedded video in the link above)
"Mr. President, moments ago in this chamber, the Democrats just voted to send $1400 stimulus checks to murderers, to rapists, and child molesters incarcerated in prison.... should $1400 go to illegal alien in America?"
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2021-03-23/html/CREC-2021-03-23-pt1-PgS1697.htm
"Mr. President, let's try one more time. The Democrats have objected to not sending checks to criminals in prison. The Democrats have objected to not sending checks to murderers in prison. The Democrats have objected to not sending checks to rapists in prison. Let's try a group that I think may be the lowest of the low, which is child molesters. I spent a lot of years in law enforcement, and I think there is no more horrific offense than those who commit crimes of violence and sexual assault against kids. When I was solicitor general of Texas, the cases where people sexually abused kids I thought should be in Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell. So here is a chance for some bipartisan agreement. Can't we all agree that the Federal Government shouldn't send $1,400 checks to the child molesters in prison right now for molesting kids? And before the Senator from Oregon says, ``Who knows who the child molesters are,'' well, the Department of Justice and every State department of justice knows who the child molesters are in their prisons. Let's take the money that the Democrats want to send to child molesters, and let's take it from the child molesters and give it to the victims of crimes, the kids who have been molested. This is as simple a legislative choice as I can imagine. Mr. President, as in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. 931, introduced earlier today. I further ask that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table...
The Democrats decided, when they took control, they didn't want to do that. You want to know just how far out of touch and how radical today's Democratic Party is? We have seen the Democrats now say we will send taxpayer stimulus checks to millions of illegal immigrants. We have seen Democrats say we will send the taxpayer stimulus to criminals in prison. We have seen the Democrats say we will send the taxpayer stimulus checks to murderers in prison. We have seen them say we will send the checks to rapists in prison. And we now just saw them say we will send the checks to child molesters in prison. It should be the essence of common sense to say don't give this money to violent criminals; give it to victims of crime instead. In a sane world, that would be a hundred-to-nothing proposition. I challenge any one of you in the brightest of blue States: Go home and explain to your constituents that you refused to take the money from child molesters and give it to the victims of that crime. That is the position of every Democrat in this Chamber because every single Democratic Senator was the deciding vote rejecting the amendment on the floor. It is unfortunate just how extreme the hard left is right now, but it is far out of touch with the American people, and it has long abandoned any semblance of common sense."
