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John Cornyn: “When we provide taxpayer benefits to people from other…”

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

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Senator John Cornyn Advocates for the 'Big Beautiful Bill' Amidst Democratic Criticism

Published | Video Starts at 20:13

The push factors are the normal ones you would expect, poverty, violence in your home country. But the pull factors are the incentives that are provided to people to come to our country illegally. And When we provide taxpayer benefits to people from other countries, it is a pull factor. It is an encouragement and incentive and particularly when there are no consequences to violating the law, as was the case during the four years of the last administration, our … (20:13–20:21)

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Asserts that offering benefits to non-citizens encourages illegal immigration.

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