Senator Cornyn

Contrary to Mayorkas, Wray Won’t Say Border is Secure

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Sen. Cornyn: “Director Ray, I’ve always thought of you as a straight shooter, but you won’t answer that question?” Dir. Wray: “Well, look, I think the border presents significant security issues. There’s a wide array of criminal threats that we encounter down at the border…” […]

Cornyn: Biden Admin Doesn’t Care About Migrants or Border Communities

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The Biden Administration, including the President, the Vice President, and everyone who serves in the Biden Administration, simply does not care. They don’t care about the migrants who die en route to the United States. They don’t care about our border communities that are overrun […]

Cornyn: Biden Doesn’t Care About Southern Border, Migrants Dying

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Make no mistake about it: what is happening at the border is a result of a policy failure of the Biden Administration. They apparently don’t care about the young women and girls who are sexually assaulted en route. They apparently don’t care about the migrants […]

Cornyn Previews Texas Border Trip with Cruz, GOP Colleagues

News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Later this week, I will be traveling back home to the Rio Grande Valley along with a number of my Republican colleagues so that they too can learn from the true experts about the border crisis. Migrants are dying, drugs are pouring into our country, […]

Cornyn, Arrington, Gonzales Bill to Honor Fallen Border Patrol Agent Signed Into Law

Rocksprings Border Patrol Station Renamed after Agent Donna Doss  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), U.S. Representative Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (TX-23) today released the following statements after the President signed into law the Donna M. Doss Memorial Act, which renames the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Rocksprings, Texas in Agent […]

Cornyn Joins Bipartisan Bill to Delay Ending Title 42

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) joined U.S. Sens. James Lankford (R-OK) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to introduce the Public Health and Border Security Act to require all COVID-19 related national states of emergency to be lifted before Title 42 is officially terminated. The legislation was supported by Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), John Thune […]

VIDEO: Cornyn Joins Fox News Sunday on Immigration, Ukraine, Midterm Elections

If you eliminate Title 42, the Border Patrol tells me they will lose control, and the people who will benefit the most are the drug cartels. The Ukrainians are fighting for their very lives, and I would give them everything they need faster than we are right now. I wouldn’t trust Vladimir Putin any farther […]

Cornyn, Arrington, Gonzales Pass Bill to Honor Fallen Border Patrol Agent

Rocksprings Border Patrol Station Renamed after Agent Donna Doss WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), U.S. Representative Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (TX-23) today released the following statements after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Donna M. Doss Memorial Act, which would rename the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Rocksprings, […]

VIDEO: Cornyn Leads Effort to Extend Title 42 to Help Surging Border Crisis

We’ve had a historic number of what are euphemistically called border encounters. The problem is, this is a hodgepodge of everything from economic migrants, to sex offenders, to drug dealers, to people who are convicted felons. Border Patrol tell me that if Title 42 expires, without a plan being put into place…they will simply lose […]

Cornyn, Sinema, Lankford, Kelly Introduce Bill to Increase Border Patrol Agents’ Overtime Pay

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), James Lankford (R-OK), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) today introduced the Border Patrol Pay Security Act to ensure U.S. Border Patrol agents earn similar overtime compensation already offered to other federal law enforcement agents. It amends the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to allow U.S. Border Patrol agents […]