Horror grasp Stephen King gave Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) a blunt reminder of his personal contemporary previous in keeping with the lawmaker’s newest tweet about immigration.
Cruz fired off a message calling the placement on the southern border an “invasion” and cited an build up within the collection of border encounters with folks within the Terrorist Screening Database, which has transform a up to date Republican speaking level.
When Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) made a equivalent comparability final month, Washington Publish fact-checker Glenn Kessler known as it “deceptive” for the reason that there are some 1.6 million names at the checklist, many erroneously, and that the statistics mirror individuals who have been stuck.
In different phrases, they weren’t let into the rustic.
However King famous that a minimum of one individual went within the different path: Cruz himself, who infamously fled Texas in 2021 as report chilly and fashionable energy outages ended in a dangerous humanitarian disaster around the state.
Because the crisis spread out, Cruz snuck out to holiday in sunny Cancun ― returning house simplest after he was once spotted through a few of his fellow passengers and shamed on-line.
King may well be highest identified for his books and the movie variations that experience emerged from them, however he’s additionally been politically lively, particularly on social media, the place he hasn’t been shy about calling out GOP lawmakers.