Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Tuesday that one of the side effects of President Donald Trump’s border policy is that “it has driven the Democrats certifiably insane.”

“They are lunatics,” Cruz said on “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.” “The Democrats have decided let’s go down to El Salvador and say if you elect Democrats, we will bring in more illegal aliens who are MS-13 gang members.”

Several Democrat lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador in recent days to lobby for the return of a Salvadoran man who was deported and whom the Trump administration has accused of being an MS-13 gang member.

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