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John Cornyn

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John Cornyn is a United States Senator from Texas, serving since January 3, 2002. A member of the Republican Party, he has held various leadership positions within the Senate, including serving as the Senate Minority Whip. Cornyn has focused on issues such as judicial appointments, immigration reform, and national security throughout his tenure. He is known for his strong support of conservative policies and has frequently aligned with the positions of former President Donald Trump.

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Jun 14, 2023

President Biden does not care about the fate of 300,000-plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors in the United States since he became President.

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Jun 14, 2023

Why would we expect any different outcome when the people who are mainly in charge of immigration policy in this country are the transnational criminal organizations?

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Jun 14, 2023

Do you consider the status quo compassionate or humane?

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Jun 14, 2023

I just think it's unfair to these children to leverage their fate on some unrelated immigration legislation.

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Jun 14, 2023

So, while some people pay lip service to the need to do reforms to fix the problem, nothing is being done.

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Jun 14, 2023

But the transnational criminal organizations, the coyotes, the criminals who profit from this, they know that as long as they can continue to move people across the border into the United States that the Biden administration will not care…

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Jun 14, 2023

We must show that we care about the fate of these children by doing our jobs. And we're not doing it so far.

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Jun 14, 2023

They simply don't care. Because if they did care, they would do something different.

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Jun 14, 2023

The UAC, unaccompanied alien children crisis, is a symptom of a larger problem.

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Jun 14, 2023

President Biden does not care about the fate of 300,000-plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors in the United States since he became President.

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Jun 14, 2023

The first major indication of a problem with regard to what's happening to these children appeared in a Bloomberg story in 2021

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Jun 14, 2023

Senior Biden administration officials, like Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, knew--knew about the continued--about this and continued to move children out of Health and Human Services as fast as possible by loosening…

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Jun 14, 2023

Dozens of children had simply disappeared in the Houston area and that the Houston Police Department was struggling to try to locate them.

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Jun 13, 2023

But the transnational criminal organizations, the coyotes, the criminals who profit from this, they know that as long as they can continue to move people across the border into the United States that the Biden administration will not care…

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Jun 13, 2023

We need to do better than this. We must do better than this. We must show that we care about the fate of these children by doing our jobs.

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Jun 13, 2023

President Biden does not care about the fate of 300,000-plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors in the United States since he became President.

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Jun 13, 2023

His administration can't tell you where these children are.

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Jun 13, 2023

We're talking about 13-, 14-, 15-year-old kids forced to work in meatpacking plants and food manufacturing facilities.

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Jun 13, 2023

We mentioned in the letter that the first major indication of a problem with regard to what's happening to these children appeared in a Bloomberg story in 2021.

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Jun 13, 2023

The results that are the strongest pull factor.

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Jun 13, 2023

I wonder, you know, why would we expect any different outcome when the people who are mainly in charge of immigration policy in this country are the transnational criminal organizations that get rich smuggling people from their home…

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Jun 13, 2023

Do you consider the status quo compassionate or humane?

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