of president obama's lawlessness. president obama lawlessly granted amnesty to 800,000 people here illegally who entered as children. and the direct consequence of that lawlessness, of that amnesty, we have seen the number of children taking the incredible risks that are entailed with coming across the border grow xpoen ent shally. >> that was senator ted cruz unloading a host of misinformation after touring a detention facility housing undocumented immigrants, many of them children, who crossed into texas. the part senator cruz got right the fact that america is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. but he's basically wrong about everything else. the spike started in 2009, long before the white house outlined a path to citizenship for so-called dreamers and long before the senate took up comprehensive immigration reform. as for cruz's paranoid claims of