Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) is unmoved by President Joe Biden’s sudden concern for the crisis at the United States’ southern border, describing it as a “deathbed conversion” during an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.
Asked what he expected of Biden’s executive action, Cornyn replied that he expects “no change.”
“This is all an election year, deathbed conversion by Joe Biden. Basically this executive order, which would be, by my count, roughly the 95th executive order he’s issued, does nothing to change the ability to hold people as opposed to catch them and release them. And it actually says the first 2,500 that come across the border, get in free, will be released into the interior of the country,” he continued. “And as you’ve seen, Neil, today we find out their intention is once the front door has caused the room to get too crowded, they’re simply going to open the back door and dismiss 350,000 asylum cases that have been pending before the courts.”
After playing a clip of a previous interview with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defending the Biden administration’s handling of the border, Cavuto asked Cornyn for his reaction.
“Well, this is the same person who said that the border is secure and then admits they’re releasing up to 85% of the people that come across the border,” said Cornyn. “I have zero confidence in Alejandro Mayorkas. He’s proven himself to be dishonest with Congress and dishonest with the American people. So I don’t think he’s suddenly changed.”
“So I don’t expect any change other than President Biden is going to point to this and say, now ‘I’ve gotten religion on border security,'” concluded the Republican senator, who is vying to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell as the Republican leader in Congress’s upper chamber. “He has not, and nothing will change except for, he hopes, his poll numbers.”
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