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John Cornyn: “His failure to secure the southern border in Texas and in…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 13:36

That makes the world a much more dangerous place. From the first year of his presidency, President Biden signaled weakness and incompetence on the world stage, especially with his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. His failure to secure the southern border in Texas and in New Mexico and California and Arizona invited a drug trafficking crisis. that is continuing to have downstream effects in our country. Even today. Hundreds of Thousands of Americans have lost their lives to the illegal drug trafficking coming across our southern border. (13:36–13:48)

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Asserts that Biden's failure to secure the southern border led to a drug trafficking crisis.

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