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Issues: Immigration & Border Security

Cornyn, GOP Colleagues’ Bill to Make Catch-and-Release Data Public Passes Senate

News Legislation Would Require the Biden-Harris Administration to Release Data on Unlawful Migrant Release Programs WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Susan Collins (R-ME) released the following statements after their Southern Border Transparency Act, which would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

Cornyn, Cortez Masto Bill to Stop Illicit Drug Financing Signed into Law

News AUSTIN – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) released the following statements after their Preventing the Financing of Illegal Synthetic Drugs Act, which helps the federal government financially stifle organizations that traffic synthetic drugs like fentanyl into the United States, was signed into law: “Fentanyl is an unprecedented crisis that […]

Cornyn, Cruz, Kelly Bill to Expand Starr-Camargo Bridge Heads to President’s Desk

News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) released the following statements after their Starr-Camargo Bridge Expansion Act, which would give authority to increase the number of lanes for the toll bridge or allow a rail line to be built that runs from Rio Grande City, Texas, to Mexico and facilitates […]

On Fox, Cornyn Discusses Harris’ Border Flip-Flop

News [Harris] takes a radically permissive position or approach to illegal immigration, and then when she realizes this isn’t to her political advantage when she’s now the Democratic nominee, she seems like she is simpatico with President Trump. Both can’t be true. This is clearly an opportunistic flip-flop. She will say or do anything she […]

Cornyn Details Border Czar Harris’ Failures

News Vice President Harris has proven she has no interest – zero interest – in stopping the alarming number of people streaming across the border. The Vice President of the United States, who was appointed the Border Czar by President Biden, has never spoken to the head of the Border Patrol. Vice President Harris has […]

Cornyn: Biden Executive Actions Nothing But “Election-Year Stunts”

News This is what the Border Patrol calls a pull factor… attracting people into the United States who know that if they wait long enough, President Biden will find some way to allow them to stay. This is a last-ditch attempt to turn down the heat on the border crisis in the lead up to […]

Cornyn, Cramer Call Out Biden Admin for Dismissing 350,000 Removal Cases

News AUSTIN – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland questioning the administration’s dismissal of more than 350,000 removal cases and highlighting the erosive effect of these policies on the U.S. legal immigration system: They […]

Cornyn, Grassley, Colleagues Introduce Resolution to Overturn Biden Admin Rule Enabling Abuse of Unaccompanied Migrant Children

News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to strike down the Biden administration’s rule endangering the safety and wellbeing of unaccompanied migrant children: “The Biden administration’s willful neglect of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children is unacceptable,” said […]

Cornyn Slams Biden Admin’s Executive Order on Immigration

News It is a shell game. They are not serious about it. This is a conversion based on the proximity of the next election and sinking poll numbers. This executive order is just political cover, and the American people aren’t going to be fooled. WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) led a press […]

Cornyn, Ossoff, Lankford, Sinema Introduce Bill to Enhance Law Enforcement’s Fentanyl Detection Capabilities

News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), James Lankford (R-OK), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) today introduced the Detection Equipment and Technology Evaluation to Counter the Threat of (DETECT) Fentanyl and Xylazine Act, which would authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct research and development, testing, and evaluation on equipment […]

VIDEO: Cornyn Slams Senate Dems’ Border Bill Stunt

News 108,000 people who died of drug overdoses last year, 71,000 died from fentanyl, and now, the Democrats are claiming that they care. They want to claim that they’re the party of border security after three and a half years. Give me a break. WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) participated in a […]