After March 22’s terrorist bombings in Brussels, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz said in a statement he wanted the United States to “empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”
However, the Texas senator’s proposal did not sit well with President Obama. On March 23 Obama spoke at a joint news conference with Argentine President Mauricio Marci and called out on Ted Cruz’s yesterday’s proposal.
I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance—which ... the father of Senator Cruz escaped for America.
