Senator Cornyn

Cornyn to Biden: Where Is Your So-Called ‘Plan’ for Border Security?

News In his State of the Union address last week, President Biden urged members of Congress, ‘If you won’t pass my comprehensive immigration reform bill, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border.’ Well, I was wondering what plan the President was referring to. None of us have […]

Cornyn: Biden Admin Cooking the Books With New Border Policy

News People all over the world are taking advantage of the Biden administration’s weak policies. This new policy lets the administration roll out the welcome mat for tens of thousands of migrants, while making it seem like the numbers have actually gone down, which they have not. The President hasn’t solved the problem. He’s just […]

Cornyn to Dems: Addressing Border Crisis Must Come First

News At this moment, the border crisis is consuming all the oxygen in the room, but this must be addressed before we’ll be able to come to an agreement on any other immigration reform. It’s clear that Congress needs to invest in more resources, but more than that, in correct policies, so that immigration across […]

Cornyn Statement on Biden’s Upcoming Border Visit

News If he wants to make this a meaningful trip that seeks tough solutions to the unmitigated disaster his policies have created, I’d be happy to point him in the right direction. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s remarks on immigration and his upcoming visit to […]

Cornyn Calls for Action on Border Crisis in 118th Congress

News While I’m proud of everything that we’ve been able to accomplish on a bipartisan basis last Congress, we regrettably failed to address some of the biggest problems facing our country, starting with the border. The Biden administration is simply waving the white flag when it comes to any consequences associated with illegal immigration into […]

Cornyn Praises Supreme Court Ruling Keeping Title 42 in Place

News WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order terminating the Title 42 order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pending oral arguments on whether 19 Republican State attorneys general may intervene to challenge Judge Sullivan’s […]

Cornyn, Sinema Bill to Combat Illicit Cross-Border Tunnels Signed into Law

News WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) released the following statements after the DHS Illicit Cross-Border Tunnel Defense Act, which instructs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to develop and execute a plan to combat the use of tunnels by cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, was signed into law: “Tunnels are […]

Cornyn, Pfluger Bill to Seal Cross-Border Tunnels Signed Into Law

News WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and U.S. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released the following statements after their DHS Illicit Cross-Border Tunnel Defense Act, which instructs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to develop and execute a plan to combat the use of tunnels by cartels and other transnational criminal organizations, was signed into law:  “Tunnels are […]

On Fox, Cornyn Discusses Delay of Title 42 Expiration, FBI Twitter Involvement

News It’s never been this bad, and it’s entirely predictable. What happens when this public health Title 42 eventually goes away? Because it has proven to be one of the most effective tools that the Border Patrol has to return people to their home country who aren’t claiming asylum. This ongoing relationship with social media […]

Cornyn on Fox: Biden Admin Has No Plan Once Title 42 Expires

News I remember talking to the Border Patrol Chiefs probably about a year ago as they knew that eventually Title 42 would go away, and they wanted some plan in its place. Now here we are… a week before that is going to happen. Maybe they have a secret plan. Maybe the secret is they […]

Cornyn, Manchin, Cuellar, Gonzales Urge Biden Administration to Extend Title 42

News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Representatives Henry Cuellar (TX-28) and Tony Gonzales (TX-23) sent a letter urging President Joe Biden to extend the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) Title 42 order beyond the upcoming December 21, 2022 deadline. They wrote: “We have a crisis at our southern border. […]

Cornyn: With End of Title 42, Biden Admin Has No Plan for Border Crisis

News What is happening now on the border and has happened the last two years under the Biden administration has been nothing short of a humanitarian and public safety crisis. If you think things are bad now, they’re about to get worse. Earlier this week a D.C. District Court Judge vacated the Center for Disease […]

Cornyn Releases GAO Report on Biden’s Disastrous ‘Notice to Report’ Process

News GAO Report Requested by Sen. Cornyn Shows One in Four Migrants Disappear Into the U.S. EL PASO – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published the information he requested on the Biden Administration’s “Notice to Report” process at the Southern border, which showed that […]