Texas Senator John Cornyn slams Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn on Tuesday demanded Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas apologize to all the parents who lost their children to a fentanyl overdose during a fiery border hearing.

Mayorkas testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and was hammered by Republican senators for the stream of migrants – and fentanyl – coming across the border.

‘Mr. Secretary of State, would you like to take the opportunity today to apologize to these parents who lost their children to fentanyl poisoning because of the policies of your department and the Biden administration? Would you like to apologize to them?’ asked Cornyn.

Mayorkas replied that his heart was with the family of every drug overdose victim.

“Is that an apology?” asked Cornyn. “You’re not even going to apologize to these parents — like so many other parents — who lost their teenage children to counterfeit fentanyl drugs.”

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn on Tuesday demanded Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas apologize to all the parents who lost their children to a fentanyl overdose during a fiery border hearing.

Mayorkas told the Texan Republican, “We are bringing unprecedented power to the fight.”

“And you lose!” Cornyn yelled.

Cornyn was also appalled when Mayorkas testified that he was unaware of Mexican drug cartels using illegal immigrants to distract Border Patrol so that contraband could be sneaked into the United States.

In February, John Modlin, chief patrol officer in Arizona’s Tucson sector, told lawmakers that cartels use a tactic called “duty saturation,” where they divide groups of border crossings so that it takes more officers to find them.

Job saturation is a term we use to describe a tactic whereby smuggling organizations divide large groups of migrants into much smaller groups. These small groups are then ordered to illegally cross the border all at once and in several locations, effectively saturating the area with migrants and exhausting our capacity to respond,” Modlin described at a congressional hearing last week.

Cartels use drones to monitor agents.

Mayorkas told lawmakers on Tuesday that the “scourge of fentanyl” is unrelated to the record number of migrants crossing.

“I’m not aware that this is a strategy,” Mayorkas countered when Cornyn tried to link the “job saturation” cartels to the fentanyl crisis.

Mayorkas said most fentanyl enters the US hidden at checkpoints and not smuggled across the border by migrants.

“You’ve just lost all credibility, Mr. Secretary,” Cornyn said.

Cornyn’s confrontation Mayorkas comes as the Texan senator has been criticized for saying Monday that Congress has done everything it can to prevent children from being slaughtered in the classroom over gun legislation.

In the wake of yet another mass shooting, this time at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, Cornyn — one of the GOP senators who negotiated a gun control bill last year — was asked about President Joe Biden’s proposal to introduce semi-automatic ban guns and further strengthen background checks.

He said Biden was repeating “tired talking points.”

“I’d say we’ve gone as far as we could — unless someone identifies an area that we haven’t addressed,” Cornyn said told reporters on Capitol Hill.

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre criticized that sentiment, without naming Cornyn, saying such comments were “devastating” for these families.

“They lost their children yesterday and that’s what they say? We should not say that there is nothing else to do. We should try to figure out what else to do,” Jean-Pierre said on CNN This Morning.