John Cornyn: “for the entirety of President Biden's term of office--for the last 3 years--my Republican colleagues and I have spoken…”

“for the entirety of President Biden's term of office--for the last 3 years--my Republican colleagues and I have spoken out about the crisis on our southern border. Of course you can imagine, coming from a border State like Texas--we have 1,200 miles of common border with Mexico, and we are at the epicenter of this crisis. I can't tell you how many times I have come here and tried to convince my colleagues that we needed to do something in order to stop the flow of humanity coming across the border, along with the drugs, the criminals, the people on the Terrorist Watchlist--the whole enchilada. I explained that the recordbreaking number of illegal crossings was something that is not normal. This is an extraordinary and unprecedented wave of humanity coming across the border. It is making these criminal organizations that pay by the head--or get paid by the head for smuggling people to the border from around the world and the ones who smuggle the drugs that follow on closely behind fabulously wealthy. I have criticized the Biden administration's policies day in and day out because they send a clear signal to the migrants to keep on coming. In other words, the Border Patrol likes to talk about the push factors for immigration. Those are poverty, violence, things like that, a desire for a better life.…”