“Keep Rhode Island’s Name Out of Your Mouth,” Langevin Tells Cruz Over His New Border Proposal

“Keep Rhode Island’s Name Out of Your Mouth,” Langevin Tells Cruz Over His New Border Proposal

United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill this week to bring processing centers for immigrants to where the "Democrat elites host their cocktail parties” — including Rhode Island. 

Cruz’s new bill is the Stop the Surge of Unsafe Rio Grande Encampments (SURGE) Act.

On Tuesday, United States Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) fired back calling the plan disingenuous. 

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Langevin responded to an appearance by Cruz on Fox News, in which Cruz said the following.

“What my bill does, is designate new ports of entry, like Palo Alto, California…Greenwich, Connecticut….Cambridge, Massachusetts…Block Island, Rhode Island….and Nantucket, so rich Democrats can be sitting there and suddenly see ten, twenty, thirty thousand illegal immigrants like we’re seeing in Texas on a daily basis,” Cruz said. 

“You can just envision them in Nantucket sipping a martini going, ‘Oh goodness they want to come to our clubs” — they would be horrified,” Cruz added. 

“@TedCruz, keep Rhode Island’s name out of your mouth,” Langevin Tweeted in response.  “These kind of bad-faith proposals do nothing to fix our broken immigration system. Get serious and quit the childish games.”