Gonzalez Pretends to Care About Cartels After Helping Empower Them

April 23, 2026

Out of touch Democrat Vicente Gonzalez is trying to play hero with a meaningless election-year amendment after spending years enabling the chaos that made cartel power explode in the first place.

For years, Gonzalez sat back while the Biden-Harris administration opened the border, overwhelmed communities, and let transnational criminal organizations cash in on human trafficking, fentanyl smuggling, and violence. Now, with voters paying attention, he wants credit for a repetitive stunt that does nothing meaningful to stop the threat.

Texans know a phony cleanup act when they see one.

“Vicente Gonzalez spent years helping create the border crisis that supercharged cartel operations, and now he expects voters to applaud a hollow election-year gimmick. Gonzalez is out of touch, out of excuses, and Texans know he can’t run from his radical record.” – NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez