WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) recapped the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing he chaired yesterday entitled, “Biden’s Border Betrayal: Criminal Aliens in America” and called out Democrats for refusing to acknowledge that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is rightly moving to deport the more than 291,000 criminal aliens who are under final orders of removal. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.

“Yesterday, I chaired a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary entitled Biden’s Border Betrayal: Criminal Aliens in America.”

“We were honored to be joined by two Angel moms whose children were murdered by criminal aliens.”

“These families and victims would never have had to suffer such devastating loss were it not for the criminal aliens who never should have been here in the United States in the first place.”

“Our Democratic colleagues claim to be the party of compassion when it comes to immigration, but they would rather society, and the media, and the Congress turn a blind eye to these victims of criminals who entered the country as a result of open-border policies.”

“You would think, listening to some of my Democratic colleagues, that ICE is arresting gardeners, cooks, housekeepers, people who are basically just trying to earn a living, but the truth is there are 291,000 criminal aliens in the United States who are under final orders of removal.”

“That means they’ve exhausted all potential legal remedies to be able to stay here and they have been found not qualified to stay, and they have been ordered removed, but they simply ignored that order by a court.”

“This doesn’t stop our colleagues across the aisle from claiming that illegal aliens detained by ICE are not being given due process.”

“Let me be clear about what the law actually says: Aliens who already have final orders of deportation, who are being detained for the purpose of removal, already had their due process.”

“I would encourage my colleagues on the left to reflect on this before continuing to use the buzzwords ‘due process’ to mislead the American people as they discuss cases that appear sympathetic but where the process that these aliens were entitled to has simply been exhausted, and they lost or they refused to show up in the first place.”