Cornyn Fact-checks Democrats’ Hysteria on Deportations
To the Democrats who would decry these arrests, would you want these criminals to be your neighbor? I'm going to guess the answer's no.
When the mainstream media and our Democratic colleagues engage in fearmongering about these so-called mass deportations, I hope people remember we're talking primarily about criminals.
By ending President Biden's open-border policies and deporting criminals and gang members… President Trump is making our nation safe again.
WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) singled out Democrats for scaremongering and praised the Trump administration’s deportation of dangerous criminals and gang members who are in the United States illegally. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.
“Last summer in Houston, Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Jocelyn Nungaray disappeared on her way to the grocery store. She was found dead in a creek, having been strangled and killed by two men from Venezuela who entered the country illegally. Both of these men had been apprehended by Customs and Border Protection months earlier, but they’d been given a court date and then released.”
“ICE—Immigration and Customs Enforcement—have now arrested criminals who’ve committed sexual assault, domestic violence, and drug and weapon-related crimes.”
“To the Democrats who would decry these arrests, would you want these criminals to be your neighbor? I’m going to guess the answer’s no.”
“There are more than 1.5 million immigrants who’ve exhausted their legal remedies in a court of law and are under final orders of deportation, but the Biden administration simply did nothing about it.”
“Deporting them is a commonsense next step, and one that is long overdue.”
“When the mainstream media and our Democratic colleagues engage in fearmongering about these so-called mass deportations, I hope people remember we’re talking primarily about criminals, and we’re talking about people who have no legal right to remain in the United States.”
“Removing and deporting, en masse, the criminals and gangs that entered our country illegally over the last four years and face no consequences means that Americans will have less to fear.”
“They no longer will have to fear that their daughter will go on a run around her college campus or walk to the grocery store and never return home because they’ve been abducted and murdered by somebody who had no legal right to be here in the first place.”
“By ending President Biden’s open-border policies and deporting criminals and gang members and people under final orders of deportation, President Trump is making our nation safe again, and that’s not something we should fear.”