Category: Senator John Cornyn

Mayorkas Says He’s ‘Not Aware’ Cartels Using Illegal Immigrants to Distract Border Agents

March 29, 2023
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that he is not aware of cartels using illegal immigrants as a decoy to distract border patrol agents while they smuggle drugs or other individuals across the border. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Mayorkas specifically if he was familiar with the cartel…

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Mayorkas Says He’s ‘Not Aware’ of Cartels Using Illegal Immigrants to Distract Border Agents

March 29, 2023
border securityPolicies & ImpactsSecretary of Homeland Security Alejandro MayorkasSenator John CornynUSUS News
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that he is not aware of cartels using illegal immigrants as a decoy to distract border patrol agents while they smuggle drugs or other individuals across the border. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Mayorkas specifically if he was familiar with the cartel…

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FBI Lawyer Hoped Justice Department Would ‘Reconsider’ 2021 Memo on Alleged School Board Threats, Documents Reveal

March 24, 2023
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Documents the FBI recently released show that a lawyer for the agency expressed her reservations about a draft version of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Oct. 4, 2021 memo that initiated a controversial federal effort to investigate alleged harassment at school board meetings around the country. The documents, which the America First Legal Foundation (AFL)…

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8 US Senators Set to Visit El Paso Amid Ongoing Border Crisis

January 8, 2023
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Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) announced that a party of eight U.S. Senators—three Democrat, four Republican, and one Independent—will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in El-Paso, Texas, to observe first hand what Sinema called “Washington’s failure.” Those joining them Monday and Tuesday will be Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Thom Tillis…

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Cornyn Presses Supreme Court Nominee Over ‘Judicial Policymaking’

March 25, 2022
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Concerns about the Supreme Court’s use of unenumerated rights to “transform society” were voiced by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), on the final day of questioning at the Senate Judicial Hearings in Washington D.C. on March 24. Unenumerated rights are those not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Cornyn, a former trial judge and member of the…

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