Ted Cruz

They want enforcing our federal immigration laws delegitimized.

Why?

Because they supported for four years open borders.

They've decided they are a radical open borders party.

And every single shooting you have, particularly with someone who is not

a Trender or Agua gang member, an MS-13 gang member, someone who appears to be a mother of three or an ICU nurse, every shooting that happens, unfortunately, we're seeing Democrats in the media use to inflame the tensions, to divide us more, and to distract from the absolute scandal of $9 billion stolen by Somali fraudsters in Minnesota—

I think that is absolutely right, particularly because I think many of those Democrat politicians are complicit and face their own liability for what is to date the most massive taxpayer fraud that has ever been discovered.

There may be larger ones in states like California and New York, but Minnesota is right now the single largest in the history of America.

And the Democrats really, really, really want everyone to forget that.

Let me say something else.

I don't think it's an accident.

that this is happening in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis is where the George Floyd riots began.

It's where the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots began, where the looting began, where the firebombing of police cars began, where the violence began.

And there has grown up

an organized, funded resistance in Minneapolis that operates in many ways like a military force.

Operates with intelligence, operates with millions of dollars behind it, operates with surveillance, operates by targeting law enforcement agents, operates by sending people in to deliberately obstruct law enforcement, including you had at one of these instances, one detainee bit the finger off of a law enforcement agent.

You had another person who was arrested who had spikes that she was putting to blow the tires out on law enforcement vehicles.

And she was arrested with a whole bag full of those.

They are engaged in not just peaceful protests standing there holding a sign, but deliberately active violent protests designed to stop law enforcement from arresting the criminals.