Ted Cruz, a Republican, is the junior senator from Texas and lives in Houston with his wife, Heidi, and two daughters. He served as Texas solicitor general from 2003 to 2008.
Human trafficking is a terrible and tragic industry, affecting every community across the country. Since 2012, the National Human Trafficking Hotline has seen yearly increases in reported cases, rising to 8,524 in 2017. Even so, this is a small fraction of the total estimated cases of human trafficking and exploitation that occur in our country every year.
The least we can do is to ensure that our government does everything it can to provide the medical care and support services our veterans require after completing their service.
Our first obligation must be to protect U.S. citizens. That’s why airport screenings aren’t enough.
Congress is ready to act on the still-festering border crisis, but the president and Democrats won’t let us. And the thousands of children at risk of abuse and violence are bearing the burden.
Texas — a place where the energy economy isn’t under siege by ideologues and special interests — shows exactly how Americans will benefit once the nation overcomes those awful influences.
