MILWAUKEE.- On the second day of the Republican National Convention (NRC), Republicans addressed security issuesbut some of the most prominent speeches claimed that the United States is facing an “invasion” at the border with immigrants and drugs.
Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake even accused Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, also a Senate candidate, of voting against the law that would prevent voting of “millions of undocumented people”a controversial law that has been criticized because the U.S. Code already contemplates the prohibition and punishment of undocumented immigrants who vote.
“Americans are waking up to the truth about the disastrous Democrat policies pushed by Joe Biden and his favorite Congressman, Ruben Gallego. These guys are full of… bad ideas. Last week, Ruben Gallego voted to allow the millions of people who came to our country illegally to cast their ballots in the upcoming election,” Lake said.
He even claimed that Gallego has “handed over” Arizona to drug cartels.
“Gallego and the Democrats have handed control of my state, the Arizona border, to drug cartels, and thanks to them, criminals and deadly drugs are pouring in and our children are dying,” he said.
That message was not in front of former President Donald Trump, who entered the main auditorium of the Fiserv Forum, where he sat next to the vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, who has raised alarm among immigrant and civil rights advocates.
After Trump’s arrival, Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) offered a message in a similar tone to Lake’s.
“Never before, when an election has mattered so much, have we faced an invasion on our southern border — not figuratively, a literal invasion,” Cruz said.
He said 11.5 million people have crossed the border illegally under President Joe Biden, and compared the figure to the capacity of Fiserv Forum, which has a capacity of 18,000 people, which would mean 639 such stadiums.
“That’s 11.5 million people, more than all but eight states in the country,” he said.
Cruz, whose family themselves are migrants from Cuba, then made a connection between immigration and crime in the U.S.
“The numbers don’t show us the true price our country is paying,” he said. “Every day, Americans are dying, murdered, assaulted and raped by illegal immigrants that Democrats have released.”
For Republicans, the border under the Biden Administration is nothing more than illegal immigration and drugsnothing about trade between Mexico and the United States, nor the millions of legal crossings of people who live and work on the border and the crossing of merchandise to both countries.
Before Cruz’s speech, a video from former President Trump’s campaign was played, charging that under the Biden administration, who is described as a “weak man,” he has been “extraordinary for the Mexican drug cartels.”
Later, Senator Marco Rubio (Florida), who fell behind in the race for vice presidential nomination, also claimed that the border allows the flow of drugs and criminals.
“Criminals and drugs are allowed to flood our country and terrorize our people,” Rubio said.
The attack against Trump is the protagonist
The speeches during the second day of the Republican Convention also featured the assassination of former President Trump last Saturday in Pennsylvania.
“Let me start by thanking Almighty God for protecting President Trump and turning his head on Saturday when he was shot,” Cruz said.
A similar statement was made by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as White House spokeswoman during part of the Trump administration.
“Before I begin, I want to say that I have always been proud to stand with President Trump, but I have never been prouder than I was tonight,” she said. “Not even an assassin’s bullet could stop him. Almighty God intervened, because America is one nation under God, and He is certainly not done with President Trump.”
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