Chris Russo

And he has been an opponent of border security and interior immigration enforcement since 2008.

He was one of the first authors of one of these grand compromise amnesty bills back in the Bush administration in, I think, 2005.

So if you remember, everybody remembers the Gang of Eight bill that was going to provide amnesty to illegal aliens who had been in the country and had not had a subsequent criminal record of any type.

Well, this actually was preceded by several efforts within the George W. Bush administration that never actually came to fruition because they were so unpopular.

And so you had a variety of these bills.

One of them was spearheaded by Senator Cornyn back in the day.

And then

More contemporarily, he's had several efforts that he's been either behind behind the scenes or vocally supportive of things like lifting country caps for legal immigration, which would guarantee that essentially every legal immigrant for the next 40 years would be from either India or China.

And I don't think that's in anyone's best interest.

And he, as you mentioned earlier in the show, has been.

an opponent of border security measures saying that the border wall was not going to be effective, that we needed different methods of keeping people out, et cetera.

And then more recently, he's kind of pivoted because I think he understood that he has never in his career had a substantial primary challenge.

And now suddenly he's got his hands full.

He's at the trough of his popularity and he's got a fight on his hands.

And so he's pivoting to appear more conservative than he has

Two things.

Well, you know, more recently, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed last year, and it provided a ton of funding for the border wall.

But in the first Trump administration, where we could have gotten it done, the U.S.

Senate and even the House provided next to nothing.

for border wall construction.