It’s election season, and we're giving @JohnCornyn his “toughest race yet.” So now he’s lying about his record on immigration.
The reality: he's undermined bipartisan immigration reform and sold out Dreamers repeatedly. Why?
Let's follow the money...🧵 #CorporateCornyn
First, let's take a look at #CorporateCornyn's record. Folks, it's a LOT of lip service.
He gives long, serious speeches about immigration reform — but in D.C., he's notorious for undermining and voting against bipartisan, commonsense reform bills. texasobserver.org/john-cornyn-im…
In fact, #CorporateCornyn is so poisonous to immigration reform that the late Sen. John McCain refused Mitch McConnell’s instruction to include Cornyn in a bipartisan immigration reform group working on a Senate bill, suspecting he would undermine it. newyorker.com/magazine/2013/…
.@JohnCornyn is trying to paper over his record now with a new Spanish-language ad lying about how he supports Dreamers.
Don't let him fool you. When #CorporateCornyn had the chance, he voted repeatedly against the DREAM Act. americasvoice.org/press_releases…
#CorporateCornyn also held protections for Dreamers hostage to get more money for the useless border wall (which, by the way, steals land from Texans and robs funds from the military construction budget!) and new restrictions on legal immigration.
And then, of course, there are the racist dog whistles. #CorporateCornyn
#CorporateCornyn also defends separating children from their families, and said that if children died, it was their parents’ fault for seeking asylum.
John Cornyn isn’t just a coward — he’s cruel.
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So why has @JohnCornyn spent decades actively sabotaging immigration reform?
Simple: #CorporateCornyn is raking in corporate PAC money from the private detention industry.
💰 $23,000 from GEO
💰 $23,000 from CoreCivic
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As long as #CorporateCornyn keeps blowing up deals to fix our broken immigration system and ensures a steady supply of detainees to private detention companies, his corporate donors are happy.
#CorporateCornyn even threatened to change banks when his corporate donors were threatened.
For nearly twenty years, #CorporateCornyn has repeatedly shown that he's willing to sell us out for his corporate donors.
We're fed up with his corporate bootlicking. It's time to show John Cornyn the door. MJForTexas.com/CorporateCornyn
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