Ted Cruz: Media Should Refer To Jumper As ‘Undocumented White House Visitor’

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the fourth annual Texas Tribune Festival held at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Rodolfo Gonzalez)
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joked that media outlets should refer to the man who jumped the White House fence, made it across the lawn, and got inside as an “undocumented White House visitor.

“We should insist that ABC, NBC, CBS, they refer to the visitor according to the term that is politically correct: an undocumented White House visitor,” Cruz, a hardliner on immigration reform, said during his speech at the Values Voter Summit on Friday.

Since the intrusion the White House has said it planned to boost security including increasing surveillance and using more police officer patrols.

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    I suggest that we henceforth refer to Cruz as that Piece of Shit from Texas.

  2. “…Cruz, a hardliner on immigration reform,…”

    Except when the immigrants come from Cuba

  3. It’s still early for me, haven’t had any coffee so maybe that’s why I don’t quite get the joke. Was the person that hopped the fence not American? I thought the news said the guy was a U.S. war veteran. I did not hear anything about his status as far as country he was from so it’s possible I missed that detail…

  4. I would have gone with:

  5. [quote=“TrumpDog, post:4, topic:10804”]
    I thought the news said the guy was a U.S. war veteran.
    [/quote] The report did say US Veteran, which does not specify country of citizenship. Non-USA citizens are a common part of the US military as one does not need to be a US citizen to join the US military.

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