A few years ago, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) told voters she’d heard about immigrants who were responsible for “beheadings” in the Arizona desert, a claim that the governor apparently made up out of whole cloth. The Republican later conceded, “That was an error, if I said that.”
The moral of the story was obvious: don’t make stuff up about border crimes; the claims are too easy to check. It’s a lesson Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) didn’t learn.
Sen. John Cornyn raised the specter last week that illegal immigrants are pouring across the Mexican border — 300 per night in one spot, a rate that would command high-level attention in Washington and probably steer the debate over immigration policy and border security.
“Friend on border sez 300 ppl coming across his property every night. And Napolitano sez border is under control?” Cornyn wrote on his Twitter account, referring to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.









