"We right now have an incredible flow of human traffickers, narcotics traffickers coming across the border and it endangers our national security and it endangers people's lives," Cruz said in January.
"Njengamanje sinabantu abaningi abashushumbisa abantu, abashushumbisa izidakamizwa bewela umngcele okubeka engcupheni ukuphepha kwethu ezweni kanye nokubeka izimpilo zabantu engcupheni," kusho uCruz ngoJanuwari.