WASHINGTON – Today in the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) lambasted the Biden administration for poisoning the well on immigration, including reforms to unlawful programs like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, by refusing to secure the border and enforce existing law. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.

“The Biden administration has outsourced our immigration policy to criminal cartels for at least the last three years.”

“The conversation we’re having here today needs to be placed in the proper context: nine million illegal entries into the United States since the Biden administration took over, 108,000 dead Americans last year because the drugs that come across the southwestern border.”

“It’s become increasingly difficult for the Biden administration to sweep this problem under the rug. They have the tools available to them – the same laws that were in effect during the Trump administration to deal with much of this problem – but they simply refuse to do so.”

“President Biden continues to poison the well to good-faith bipartisan attempts to address this problem. It’s impossible for us to pass legislation dealing with this larger problem when President Biden simply refuses to enforce the law, creating a huge magnet to more and more immigration.”

“For example, authorities that were intended to be exercised on a case-by-case basis, the so-called parole authority, has been exploited by President Biden to stand up entirely new programs that Congress has not agreed to.”

“The Biden administration knows – just as the Obama administration did when it came to DACA – that these programs are built on quicksand. Anyone enrolled in these programs is likely and has, in fact, experienced tremendous uncertainty – not as a result of the policies we have in place today, but the policies they put in place before, as far back as 12 years ago.”