Ted Cruz says Afghan refugees are 'getting Ubers' from Fort Bliss when they arrive in the US: Homeland Security faces vetting questions after 'previously deported rapist' and ISIS Suspected Terrorists were put on evacuation flights from Kabul
Ted Cruz claimed Afghan refugees can call an
uber to leave their holding location in the U.S. as Republican criticism of the Biden administration's vetting process ramped up ahead of the U.S. withdraw from
Afghanistan.
The criticism came amid a report that an Afghan man who had been convicted of rape and had been deported from the U.S. was allowed to board an Afghan evacuation flight to America.
The Texas Republican senator took an aerial tour of Fort Bliss, one of the military bases receiving Afghan refugees, and said the perimeter around the housing area is 'not secure'.
He also said officials at the fort told him refugees can order ubers to visit nearby El Paso.
'The leadership at Fort Bliss told me about one of the refugees who called an uber and took an uber to downtown El Paso and they are not detaining anyone there so if 10,000 refugees arrive there, every one of those 10,000 can choose to leave tomorrow,' Cruz said late on Friday.
Biden announced on Sunday evening that the Department of Homeland Security, which is also handling the migrants illegally crossing the border and damage from Hurricane Ida, would be the lead agency coordinating ongoing efforts across the federal government to resettle the Afghan refugees.
Ted Cruz says Afghan refugees are 'getting Ubers' from Fort Bliss when they arrive in US | Daily Mail Online