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On the recordJune 17, 2024
for 3\1/2\ years, President Biden's border policies have resulted in a crisis that has endangered the safety and security of the American people. When law enforcement is forced to spend their days pushing paper, processing, transporting, caring for migrants, it creates an opening for dangerous people and drugs to slip across the border and into our communities. And, of course, this isn't a coincidence or accidental; it is actually part of the business model of the cartels to whom President Biden has outsourced our immigration policy. They control it--not the Border Patrol, not the Biden administration--criminal cartels that get richer every day smuggling people and drugs across the border. It is a booming business, thanks to President Biden's policies. But last week, we got a striking reminder of the dangers that lurk in the shadows of this border crisis, one that, maybe, isn't being sufficiently paid attention to. One of these men used the CBP--that is Customs and Border Protection--app, which the Biden administration has been touting as a way for migrants to schedule their hearing before Border Patrol at the port of entry. So one of the men last week used this app that was sold as a safe and orderly way to manage the crisis. But, clearly, this is not the case.…
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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