If you eliminate Title 42, the Border Patrol tells me they will lose control, and the people who will benefit the most are the drug cartels.
The Ukrainians are fighting for their very lives, and I would give them everything they need faster than we are right now.
I wouldn't trust Vladimir Putin any farther than I could throw him.
WASHINGTON – Today on Fox News Sunday, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) joined Martha MacCallum to discuss the Biden Administration’s decision to end Title 42, Putin’s war with Ukraine, and the upcoming midterm elections. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.
On President Biden Eliminating Title 42:
“You and I are still required – when we fly on an airplane or take public transportation – to wear masks because that’s what the Transportation Security Administration has ordered. I heard the Congresswoman say we need to follow the science, but frankly it’s contradictory, the messages we are getting from the Administration.”
“And, really, the point is here, if you eliminate Title 42, this is the last tool that’s been available to Border Patrol to try and maintain some semblance of order on the border. And if you eliminate Title 42, the Border Patrol tells me they will lose control, and the people who will benefit the most are the drug cartels.”
“We need to enforce our existing immigration laws and do it aggressively, but the Biden Administration shows no interest in doing so.”
On the Russian Invasion of Ukraine & Vladimir Putin:
“I am for giving the Ukrainians anything they can use and as fast as we can get it there. That’s the message we had from President Zelensky time after time, and that’s the message we got when I visited Poland and Germany with a bipartisan group of Senators a couple of weeks ago.”
“We can’t dither and worry about some of the niceties here when the Ukrainians are fighting for their very lives, and if they feel like they need to take out a fuel depot across the Russian border, go for it.”
“The Ukrainians are fighting for their very lives, and I would give them everything they need faster than we are right now.”
“I wouldn’t trust Vladimir Putin any farther than I could throw him. I think that’s really the answer, because Putin is a killer. He’s a thug. He has a vision of restoring the Russian empire, the fall of which he said was the greatest geopolitical tragedy in the last hundred years. So I wouldn’t trust Vladimir Putin for a minute.”
On the Midterm Elections:
“I think we know what the problems are right now. We know that inflation is undermining the standard of living of Americans across the country, including the people on fixed income and at the lower-end of the income scale.”
“We know that violent crime has spiked because of the disrespect that the far-left has shown the police, including this ‘Defund the Police’ movement, which has killed morale and made it harder for the police to do their job.”
“And we know the border is on fire, and of course, now we have an invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin. I think we got a lot to pay attention to. And, to me, those would be the issues that would drive our agenda when we get back in the majority.”