Like Senate Confirmation efforts for several of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees are underway, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is especially eager to see Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed as the state's top law enforcement officer.
“Pam Bondi did an outstanding job in her confirmation hearing,” Cruz told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday. “He will be confirmed. He will be the next attorney general. And I believe, well, every one of them. Trump the cabinet nominees will be confirmed.”
Cruz said that Bondi, who was also Trump's lawyer, “may be the single most important person chosen by President Trump.”
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Sen. Ted Cruz says he hopes Bondi will follow through on his promise to investigate missing migrant children in the United States. (Fox News Digital/Getty)
“And the reason for that is under Joe Biden, unfortunately, we've seen the Justice Department being politicized and organized in a way that's unprecedented in the history of our nation in terms of how they changed the Justice Department and FBI going to the military to go after the political enemies of the president,” Cruz said.
During Bondi's hearing on Wednesday, Cruz asked him if he would investigate the thousands of children from other countries who entered the United States.
Bondi replied, “Yes, Senator.”
Asked if he was confident he would follow through if confirmed, Cruz said, “I am.”
“These were unaccompanied minors, little girls, boys coming into this country who were in the custody of the federal government, and the federal government turned them over to adults,” Cruz said. “Many elders were not their relatives, and now they have lost them. They don't know where they are.”
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Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Justice as attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday the 15 January 2025. (Ben Curtis/The Associated Press)
Republican lawmakers have been critical of the Biden administration's handling of the illegal immigration problem for the past four years.
Shortly after Trump's election victory in November, House Republicans Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra on the process of the system used to check sponsors.
Speaking before the House Committee on Integrity, Security and Enforcement, Becerra testified about the Department's Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for caring for and placing unaccompanied immigrant children. .
Members of the Republican subcommittee accused the Biden administration of rushing children of immigrants out of the custody of HHS and into the hands of unscreened sponsors, who sometimes harassed and abused them.
Cruz said he also asked for Trump's nomination for HHS secretary RFK Jr. to investigate missing migrant children, “because we have an obligation,” he said.
“Those were the children who were in custody government,” Cruz said. “We have an obligation to protect those children. ”
Migrants line up outside the immigration center to buy tickets again at St. Brigid on E. 7th St. Friday, January 5, 2024, New York City. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Bondi has received the support of current and former attorneys general across the country, as well as the top 100 Justice Department officials. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on his nomination in the coming days.
If the committee approves the nomination, the full Senate will hold a vote to confirm his nomination. Although the exact date of the final confirmation vote has not been announced, it is expected to be in the next two weeks.
Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.