John Cornyn: “As my colleague from West Virginia has noted, and as the Nation knows--the world knows--President Biden will deliver his…”

“As my colleague from West Virginia has noted, and as the Nation knows--the world knows--President Biden will deliver his third, perhaps final, State of the Union address tonight. Obviously, the border is a major issue confronting the Nation, and I have to say that, coming from Texas with the 1,200 mile common border with Mexico, Washington has just recently acknowledged--the President has just recently acknowledged something that we have known has been a problem for a long, long time without really any help to deal with this flood of humanity and drugs across our southwestern border. I expect that President Biden will do as he always does--blame somebody else for this problem, even though he has had the same tools that President Trump has had with which to deal with it from the day he stepped into the Oval Office. The American people are pretty smart and they are pretty perceptive and they understand that the crisis at our border is a man-made crisis, and that man is President Biden. He has opted, rather than secure the border, to issue dozens of Executive orders dismantling piece by piece the border security protections that President Trump had put in place, things like the ``Remain in Mexico'' policy where people who would otherwise be released into the interior of the United States would have to remain in Mexico while their asylum claims have been determined. Under President Biden, U.S.…”