Every Republican Senator in the Judiciary Committee. including Senator CORNYN. voted against her nomination. so that part is accurate. but all the Republicans voted against her. Get the picture? All the speeches about border enforcement. all the speeches about stopping illegal immigrants being the No. 1 priority of the Republican Party on immigrationfirst. they dont fund the agency. second. they wont fill the position responsible for administering the law. Then comes an imminently qualified woman to run the agencyto paraphrase the words of Senator CORNYN of Texasand they object to her. They refuse to stand by her nomination. If you think this is hard to understand or follow. imagine what we have seen over the last 2 years. It has been about 540 days since the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with 68 votes. Fourteen Republicans and the Democrats passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill that had the strongest border protection in the history of the United States. It would have virtually created a seamless fenceliterally and figurativelyon the border between the United States and Mexico from San Diego to Galveston. It would have put more technology and more people on the border. Under this bill. the people on the border who are working for us to stop illegal immigration would have been able to literally stand and see another person standing half a mile away along the 2.000mile border. 24/7. That is how many people were in this bill. We passed it with 68 votes.
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