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How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop

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GOP senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn led a tour for themselves and others in their party at the border on Friday, but according to congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who took over Beto O’Rourke’s former 16th District in Texas, it’s all “political theater.”

They want to “use the border as a prop,...

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