Sen. Cruz Blocks Bill that Would Create TPS Pipeline from H.K.
12:22 pm EST
Late last Friday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz blocked a current bill that would effectively create an asylum pipeline for millions of Hong Kong citizens to come to the U.S. under Temporary Protection Status.
Sen. Cruz prudently stated that the legislation while helping some refugees flee persecution would pose a grave national security risk by allowing the Chinese Communist Party to exploit the system and insert spies and other communist actors into the U.S. population.
Cruz added that the legislation was part of a current political and big business movement to open U.S. borders, flood the already loose labor market, and would be used “to advance their long-standing goals on changing [US] immigration laws.”
19 Dec 2020
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), at the last minute on Friday, blocked a Democrat-backed bill that would have created a pipeline for Hong Kong citizens to come to the U.S. under Temporary Protection Status or asylum, which virtually would allow for a massive transfer of migrants into the country.
The bill, the Hong Kong People’s Freedom and Choice Act, Cruz said, would allow Democrats “to advance their long-standing goals on changing [US] immigration laws.”
Cruz said that the legislation would not only help refugees flee persecution but allow the Chinese Communist Party to exploit the system and insert spies into the U.S. population.