John Cornyn: “since President Biden took office 3 years ago, Customs and Border Protection has encountered 6.7 million--6.7…”

“since President Biden took office 3 years ago, Customs and Border Protection has encountered 6.7 million--6.7 million--migrants at the southern border. Just to give you an idea of how that compares to the Obama administration and President Trump's administration, this is more than those two administrations combined. And that was for a period of 12 years, where President Biden has been in office for 3 years. The administration still hasn't released the number of illegal border crossings for December, but multiple news outlets have reported that more than 300,000 migrants have crossed the border last month, which would be a new record. What I have a hard time comprehending is why President Biden thinks that is a good idea. It is his policies that are responsible, because they are like a magnet. They attract people from, literally, around the world, who show up at our border and either claim asylum, only to be put on a docket and wait 10 years before they get heard by an immigration judge--and, in the meantime, they get released into the interior--or they are simply released into the interior of the country, using something called parole. Now, I think it is a little confusing because, most of the time, we think about parole in the context of criminal law, that if somebody is tried and convicted and goes to prison, they can then be paroled out of prison.…”