Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz from Texas stated in an interview with ABC Information Tuesday that she believes Donald Trump’s border insurance policies influenced voters within the 2024 election, and that securing the U.S. border should be a precedence.
De La Cruz has received a second time period within the traditionally blue Rio Grande Valley and, much like President-elect Donald Trump, she campaigned on a platform targeted on securing the border.
She says the present coverage from the Biden-Harris administration is ineffective, resulting in chaos on the borders and elevated insecurity in U.S. neighborhoods.
Rep. Monica De La Cruz calls Biden-Harris border insurance policies ‘a joke’
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ABC Information spoke with De La Cruz about defending the border for the following 4 years.
ABC NEWS: Need to get perception from a lawmaker who is aware of the problems alongside the border very properly. Consultant Monica De La Cruz represents a South Texas district alongside the U.S.-Mexico border. She’s a Republican and simply secured a second time period within the traditionally blue Rio Grande Valley. Congresswoman, thanks a lot for speaking with us. What’s your response to the appointments that we have discovered about to date?
MONICA DE LA CRUZ: Properly, the appointments are thrilling and Trump is hitting the bottom operating, losing no extra time. The primary 100 days in Congress and in his presidency, he expects us to get to work and so do the American folks. And that’s the reason we had been planning so shortly proper now in order that we have now a fast, quick 100 days the place the American folks see outcomes from their votes.
ABC NEWS: And also you campaigned on a platform targeted on securing the border. What would you wish to see particularly from a Trump administration?
DE LA CRUZ: Properly, earlier this yr, we handed HR2, the Safe the Border Act, essentially the most complete and conservative laws ever handed by the Home of Representatives. We need to see that come into regulation.
Coming within the 119th Congress, we will have the Senate, the White Home and the Home. Thus, I imagine that we’ll lastly have the ability to do what the American folks need us to do, which is to safe the border and to reform authorized immigration.
ABC NEWS: Is there something within the present border coverage that you just assume is working that you just would possibly need to see proceed?
DE LA CRUZ: The present coverage from the Biden-Harris administration is a joke. It’s reckless. It’s open borders. It has triggered chaos on the borders and made our neighborhoods unsafe. This is the reason Hispanics made a loud message final week. They stated, not in my identify. No extra open insurance policies, no extra reckless, open border insurance policies by the Biden administration.
It is time that these D.C. elites cease that reckless, open border coverage simply to make themselves really feel good on the D.C. cocktail events. Hispanics don’t need it. They need a safe border. They need secure neighborhoods and a secure nation.
That is why they overwhelmingly selected President Trump as their forty seventh president.
ABC NEWS: And so you do not assume that the Biden administration has finished something that must be continued on the border?
DE LA CRUZ: What the Biden administration has finished is that they’ve led criminals by means of our border. We’ve seen girls raped. We’ve seen kids like Jocelyn [Nungaray], like Laken Riley, who had been murdered by unlawful immigrants.
So what we want is a secure and safe border. That is what People need. They need nationwide safety. That is why they overwhelmingly selected President Trump.
However in my a part of the district, which is Deep South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, we had each single county flip from blue to pink, overwhelmingly selecting President Trump, selecting myself.
In truth, in Stark County, the place it’s 98% Hispanic, they flipped pink for the primary time since 1892. That is telling you that Biden and Harris didn’t safe a border. They didn’t just like the chaos below their failed management. And that is why they flipped pink for the primary time in over 100 years.
ABC NEWS: Actually, you’ll attribute that to that shift? And it was a serious shift specifically amongst Latino voters. You assume that is solely due to the border?
DE LA CRUZ: I believe there have been three points. It was the border, at the beginning, which we talked about. It was the economic system. Hispanics are likely to have bigger households. Meaning extra mouths to feed.
Beneath the Biden-Harris administration, we have seen the price of dwelling enhance exponentially. And what which means is that they battle to reside from paycheck to paycheck and put the fundamentals of eggs and milk on the desk.
The third factor is culturally.Culturally, Republicans had been speaking about prosperity. They had been speaking about hope for the longer term, prosperity. In the meantime, the Democrats had been speaking about pronouns. They had been fully disconnected from the Hispanic inhabitants and, fairly frankly, from the American folks.
ABC NEWS: Consultant De La Cruz, we thanks a lot on your time. Recognize it.
DE LA CRUZ: Thanks.
