John Cornyn: “I would like to continue along the theme that our majority whip has talked about, particularly the hand-wringing that we…”

“I would like to continue along the theme that our majority whip has talked about, particularly the hand-wringing that we are seeing and fearmongering we are hearing from some of our Democratic colleagues over President Trump's promise to secure the border and the actions that he has taken already early in his administration to do exactly that, including enforcing our existing laws by repatriating, or deporting, people who have no legal right to be here in the first place. So, instead of the fearmongering of mass deportations, you might just call this enforcing the law--something that is long overdue and that the Biden administration did not do--because the fearmongering is not based on reality. Our Democratic colleagues would have the American people believe that an elderly grandma down the street--a peaceful neighbor who would never hurt a fly and who poses no threat to anyone-- will have ICE banging on her door tomorrow morning. Well, that is the picture that the left wants the American people to imagine when they hear the words ``mass deportation.'' Last December, in a Judiciary Committee hearing, then-Chairman Durbin, the Senator from Illinois, went so far as to say the President's repatriation program would ``weaken our Armed Forces'' and ``devastate our economy.'' That is a lot of hyperbole there. If that is what enforcing our law means, it certainly sounds disturbing.…”