Justice Department ‘politicized’ under Biden administration, Ted Cruz confident Pam Bondi will reverse it

As Senate confirmation hearings begin for several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), especially former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, is making a public appearance as a domestic law enforcement official. They are anxious to be approved by the top.

“Pam Bondi did a great job during her confirmation hearing,” Cruz said in an interview on Fox News Digital on Thursday. “She will be confirmed. She will be the next attorney general. And in fact, I believe all of Trump’s Cabinet nominees will be confirmed.”

Cruz said that Bondi, who was also Trump’s personal lawyer, “may be the most important Cabinet nominee that President Trump has ever made.”

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Sen. Ted Cruz said he was confident Bondi would follow through on her statement to investigate missing migrant children in the U.S. (Fox News Digital/Getty)

“And the reason is that under the Joe Biden administration, tragically, the Department of Justice and the FBI have turned the Department of Justice and the FBI into an arsenal of weapons in a way that is unprecedented in our nation’s history. , we’ve seen the Justice Department become politicized and weaponized to “hunt down the president’s political opponents,” Cruz said.

At Bondi’s hearing Wednesday, Cruz asked Bondi if he intended to investigate the thousands of missing immigrant children who have entered the United States.

Bondi replied, “Yes, Senator.”

Asked if she was confident she would do it if confirmed, Cruz said, “Yes.”

“Unaccompanied minors, girls and boys who enter this country are in the custody of the federal government, and the federal government has turned them over to adults,” Cruz said. “Many of the adults are not relatives and are now missing. We don’t know where they are.”

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Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Justice Department attorney general, appears for a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (Ben Curtis/The Associated Press)

Republican lawmakers have criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the illegal immigration crisis over the past four years.

Shortly after Trump won the November election, House Republicans slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over the administration’s process for vetting sponsors.

Becerra testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement about the department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. The agency is responsible for the care and placement of unaccompanied migrant children.

Republican subcommittee members said the Biden administration would rush immigrant children out of HHS custody and into the hands of unvetted sponsors, who could exploit and abuse them. accused that there was.

Cruz also said he asked RFK Jr., Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health, to investigate lost immigrant children “because we have a duty to do so.”

“They were children in the custody of the government.” Mr. Cruz said. “We have a duty to protect those children.”