{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/on-fox-cornyn-discusses-biden-admins-sale-of-border-wall-materials/", "On Fox, Cornyn Discusses Biden Admin\u2019s Sale of Border Wall Materials", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "John Cornyn", "C001056", "www.cornyn.senate.gov", "cornyn", "https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today on Fox News\u2019 The Story with Martha MacCallum, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s decision to sell unused border wall materials and President-Elect Trump\u2019s plan to deport criminals who are here illegally. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn\u2019s remarks are below, and video can be found here.\n\nOn the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s Border Wall Auction:\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s outrageous, of course. And it seems like the Biden administration not only is determined to destroy our country by opening our borders to anybody and everybody who wants to come across, but positively make it easier for them to get here.\u201d\n\n\u201cI think we\u2019re going to be paying the price for decades to come from this uncontrolled border policy of the previous administration.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to January 20, when President Trump begins to enforce the laws that are already in place that Joe Biden refuses to enforce.\u201d\n\nOn President-Elect Trump\u2019s Deportation Plan:\n\n\u201cCatch-and-release is the basic policy flaw of the Biden administration, because if you release people into the interior of the country, they\u2019re going to just keep coming. More will keep coming because they know they\u2019ll be able to successfully get into the United States and be able to stay.\u201d\n\n\u201cDetaining is really important and, of course, the Biden administration has reduced the capacity of our ability to detain individuals dramatically.\u201d\n\n\u201cBecause of President Trump\u2019s threat of mass deportation, it\u2019s already deterred migrants from coming to the United States in the first place.\u201d\n\n\u201cSo this isn\u2019t just about enforcing the law, about catching and detaining people\u2014this is about consequences, and it\u2019s beginning to work.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/on-fox-cornyn-discusses-biden-admins-sale-of-border-wall-materials/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9077740833163261, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}