"I Don't Find That Answer Remotely Credible": Ted Cruz Grills Biden Nominee On Birth Tourism

uh mr chipman a minute ago uh senator whitehouse asked you if any of your views on guns are out of step with the majority of the american people um the art the ar-15 is one of if not the most popular rifle in america it's not a machine gun it's a rifle your public position is that you want to ban ar-15s is that correct senator uh thank you for the question and thank you for our visit yesterday and offering me a dr pepper it made me reminisce about my time in central texas but now to your uh question uh with respect to the ar-15 on i support a ban as as has been presented in a senate bill and supported by the president the ar-15 is a gun i was issued on atf's swat team and it's a particularly lethal weapon um and regulating it as other particularly lethal weapons um i have advocated for as atf director if i'm confirmed i would simply enforce the laws on the books and right now there is no such ban on those guns so you want to ban the most popular rifle in america uh a minute ago and you noted there is a senate bill senator feinstein had a bill to ban some 2000 specified rifles and other firearms in her bill in 2013 the democrats had a majority in the senate it was the harry reid senate and we voted on the senate floor on senator feinstein's so-called assault weapon ban do you know how many senators voted for it no i do not 40. 60 voted against it so in a democratic senate a super majority voted against a ban now part of the reason they voted against the ban as you're aware is during the clinton administration there was a ban in effect the department of justice studied the effect of that law and discovered that it had no measurable impact on violent crime is that right senator um i did enforce this law for 10 years as an atf agent um i'm unfamiliar with the study that you you are pointing out and i apologize for that well when you and i met in my office last night and discussed it i asked if there any data to suggest that the ban was effective and and what you said in the office is you you were not aware of any data that the data was i think mixed is the term you used yeah yes senator um what i said to you i yesterday you've accurately stated it um i i think it was mixed which um you know i stand by that remark and i think my recollection is that evidence was shown that the limitation on magazine size had an impact i also believe that later studies showed that the use of assault weapons in mass shootings had declined during that period but you know that that's how i would like to characterize my views on that so you also said when you and i talked yesterday in the office that senator feinstein's bill which a super majority of senators voted against in a democratic senate you said that bill didn't go far enough and you wanted an even broader ban to ban you you said it didn't go far enough is that right um senator thanks for that question the ability to to clarify what i did say is that senator feinstein's bill uh did not address those firearms um that are currently in the possession of americans and then i did share with you my view as an advocate which would be quite different than someone actually enforcing the law in the books that those firearms could be treated uh under the nfa and regulated that way which would deal with those currently in the possession of americans so when you say it didn't go far enough you mean that you don't just want to ban the manufacturer of those rifles you don't just want to make it illegal to sell those rifles but you want to actively have government go after the people who currently possess firearms and if they don't register and submit to all of the onerous restrictions of the national firearms act presumably confiscate their weapons senator um what i've said publicly is that as an advocate i prefer a system where the ar-15 and other assault weapons are regulated under the national farms act let me shift to ms jetto you and i also had a conversation this week do you consider so-called birth tourism to be a problem thank you senator thank you uh um and thank you for taking the time to meet with me yesterday i really appreciated that um yeah we we did have a quite fruitful discussion on that issue and i believe we ended with the thought that we need to collect some information and the data is not there um i also noted that as a mother and as someone who's been through quite a difficult delivery um the incredible interest in protecting the health of a mother the health of a new baby and ensuring that we could do the best we can uh so that women and their babies are protected miss jetta with all respect i don't find that answer remotely credible and you said in my office you didn't consider birth tourism an eight-month pregnant or nine-month pregnant woman getting a tourist visa to come to america to have a child on american soil so that child is an american citizen that you didn't consider it an abuse of our laws it's an obvious and transparent abuse of the laws i will point out last december federal prosecutors indicted six people running a birth tourism operation in long island where turkish women would pay between seventy five hundred and ten thousand dollars to travel to new york on tourist visas to give birth and return to turkey with american citizen babies and in 2019 the new york times referred to the birth tourism industry as quote thriving is it your position that this doesn't occur that the new york times was wrong that there's not a blatant abuse of of our immigration system to the extent that anybody is committing fraud or assisting in anybody committing fraud or misrepresentation that has not only makes someone inadmissible to the united states but also there are criminal penalties and i understand i'm not familiar with the case you just mentioned but i'm familiar with other ones that a sister agency inside the department of homeland security in the past immigration and customs enforcement has addressed thank you senator klobuchar thank you very much

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Published: Wed May 26 2021