John Cornyn: “since President Biden took office on January 20, 2021, he has willfully ignored what has been happening at our southern…”

“since President Biden took office on January 20, 2021, he has willfully ignored what has been happening at our southern border. The President and leaders of his administration try to convince people that what they were seeing with their eyes was not a crisis but was merely a challenge. When that flopped, they attempted to blame the previous administration for the flood of humanity coming across the southern border, even though the immigration surge has now reached epic proportions since President Biden took office. Now, once again, they appear to be ignoring the problem altogether. We have had 17 months with more than 150,000 illegal border crossings each month--17 months, 150,000 migrants each month--and the Biden administration seems to be saying: What is the problem? Their decision, apparently, is to stay the course. What little attention there has been to the impact on the border crisis tends to focus, though, solely on the migrants, and, of course, that is part of the concern. No one is suggesting that we treat them with disrespect or in an inhumane manner. In fact, just the contrary is true. We know that people coming into the country outside of the legal immigration system endure a brutal journey just to get here. They pay thousands of dollars to cartels and coyotes--or human smugglers--and often the women and girls are raped and abused. Migrants who slow down the coyotes will be abandoned and frequently left to die.…”