As NY Mayor Bill de Blasio stated during a press conference that officials “have every reason to believe [the NY/NJ bombings] was an act of terror,” Sen. Ted Cruz has called on Congress to crack down on accepting refugees saying it’s “past time to take off the blinders.”

While establishment officials have seemingly been loathed to admit it, de Blasio just did…

• *DE BLASIO SAYS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THIS WAS ACT OF TERROR
• “There is no other individual we’re looking for at this time”

And NYPD chief O’Neil noting that the investigation now focuses on motive and if there were others who helped the bomber

• *NYPD COMMISSIONER O’NEILL SAYS UNCLEAR AS TO MOTIVE YET

And The FBI stated that:

• No indication terror cell operating in NY or NJ
• *FBI’S SWEENEY SAYS NO INDICATION SUSPECT WAS ON TERROR RADAR
  

So a “lone wolf” narratuve is in place… for now.

As this was happening, The Hill reports that Senator Ted Cruz stated:

“Congress should act to prevent Americans who have travelled abroad for training from returning here, and to stop the flow of refugees from hotbeds of terrorism in the Middle East that President Obama is determined to bring to our country,” Cruz, who has been a vocal critic of the Obama administration’s terrorism policy, said in a statement on Monday.

Cruz added that the attacks, including a separate stabbing in a Minnesota mall, indicate that the country is “moving into a new phase of the war against ISIS and al-Qaida.” 

“We can’t overcome our enemies by pretending they don’t exist, and undermining our first line of defenders. Only together, clear-eyed and determined, can we defeat this foe,” he said. 

Cruz has pushed legislation for years that would revoke citizenship for anyone fighting with, or providing material support to, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and terrorist groups abroad. He also renewed his push to block President Obama’s plan to increase the number of Syrian refugees accepted into the United States in the wake of a terrorist attack in Brussels earlier this year.