Cornyn Goes After Schumer And Biden Over Border Bill: They ‘Think The American People Are Stupid’

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During a press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) delivered remarks on the proposed border legislation.

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00:00 The American people are smart.

00:05 They understand hypocrisy when they see it.

00:08 They understand cynicism when they see it.

00:13 Senator Schumer and President Biden think the American people are stupid.

00:19 They think they can pull the wool over their eyes and somehow, after three and a half years

00:25 of open border policies, claim that they are now the party of border security.

00:31 There is no state in the country that has suffered more under the Biden open border

00:37 policies than the state of Texas, with 1,200 miles of common border.

00:43 But here are just a few of the numbers.

00:44 We don't really know how many people have come across the border, but best estimates

00:49 are maybe 9 million, 10 million people.

00:52 Best estimate of the number of gotaways, people who evade law enforcement, roughly 1.8 million

00:57 people.

00:59 We know there are 101, 108,000 people who died of drug overdoses last year.

01:05 71,000 died from fentanyl.

01:08 And now the Democrats are claiming that they care about fentanyl poisoning after three

01:14 and a half years of doing nothing other than facilitating the distribution of this poison

01:19 to our kids all across the country.

01:23 And then there's the least talked about casualties of this policy, which are the 400,000 children

01:29 who've been placed with sponsors in the interior of the United States.

01:33 The New York Times has done an investigative piece documenting how many of these children

01:38 have been forced into labor.

01:40 You can only imagine how many of them have been sold into sex slavery, how many of them

01:45 have been abused, recruited into gangs.

01:47 And the Biden administration takes a position it's not their responsibility to follow up

01:52 on these children.

01:53 And they simply don't know where they are, what's happening to them, whether they're

01:57 going to school, whether they're getting the health care they need or not.

02:01 And they don't care.

02:03 They just don't care.

02:06 Let me just mention one last problem that is caused by the Biden open border policies.

02:13 I think it was last January there were some published reports of people connected with

02:19 ISIS, the successor terrorist organization to al-Qaida operating out of the Middle East,

02:26 facilitating the travel of migrants to the southern border.

02:31 Now we don't know and can't, perhaps can't talk about here publicly, the intelligence

02:37 reports that have been gathered that report on the number of these people connected with

02:44 the terrorist organization that have been released into the United States.

02:49 And frankly, I don't think it's a question anymore, will there be a terrorist attack

02:54 in the United States?

02:56 It's a question of when that terrorist attack occurs.

02:59 This is just another aspect of what has turned out to be a horrific policy by the Biden administration.

03:05 But now they want to claim that they're the party of border security after three and a

03:11 half years.

03:12 Give me a break.

Cornyn Goes After Schumer And Biden Over Border Bill: They ‘Think The American People Are Stupid’

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