Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Wednesday that once President-elect Donald Trump takes office the border will be secure “in January and February of next year.”

President-elect Donald Trump had made illegal immigration and its deleterious effects on society as a key campaign issue and has promised he will conduct mass deportations of illegal immigrants once elected. Cruz said that “we are going to see the border secure, and it’s not going to take a year.”

“It’s not even going to take six months. We’re going to see it in January and February of next year. And the reason I say that with absolute confidence is when Trump was president, last time, I worked hand-in-hand with him to secure the border and we produced the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years,” Cruz said during an appearance on “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

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