Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on Monday that entering the United States illegally must have consequences or criminals will continue to exploit the system and profit from smuggling and transporting illegal immigrants across the southern border. In Laredo, Texas, the senator met with a group of mayors, county judges, and community leaders to discuss how this crisis is impacting them. He said they discussed the “mess of the immigration courts, which have a backlog of 1.2 million cases.” “And in fact, the human smugglers and drug cartels know that because of our laws and our failure to offer consequences associated with illegal entry in the United States, that we will never get to those 1.2 million backlogged cases, and that people can simply evade the law by refusing to show up for their court-appointed date,” said Cornyn from the Senate floor. Cornyn said the people who benefit most from illegal …