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John Cornyn calls Dick Durbin’s DACA bluff

By Conn Carroll

Published July 13, 2021 3:47pm ET

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John Cornyn calls Dick Durbin’s DACA bluff — Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., confer during a hearing on 'Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. | (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The open-borders lobby has an old and successful playbook: Highlight a few of the most sympathetic cases deserving of amnesty and then write an amnesty policy that covers as many unsympathetic cases as possible.

But Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina are calling the Democrats’ bluff when it comes to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiaries.

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Barack Obama DACA Democratic Party Dick Durbin John Cornyn