There’s a certain kind of Republican that gives you that nagging feeling — like you’re shaking hands with someone and your gut says something’s off. You can’t place it right away. They talk the talk. They wave the flag. They show up to the right events. But somewhere, buried underneath the glad-handing and the press releases, there’s a paper trail. And paper trails don’t lie.
Meet Senator John Cornyn of Texas — currently fighting off a runoff challenge from Attorney General Ken Paxton — who just rolled out his campaign’s shiny new Faith Advisory Council. Five pastors. Big names. Lots of steeples. Very impressive on the surface.
Then you start pulling threads.
Three of Cornyn’s hand-picked faith leaders — Max Lucado of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Dr. Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, and Dr. Gus Reyes of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission — are all listed as signatories on something called the Evangelical Immigration Table’s “Principles for Immigration Reform.”
And here’s where it gets stupid.
Those “principles” include establishing — and I’m quoting directly so nobody accuses Bob of editorializing — “a path toward legal status and/or citizenship for those who qualify and who wish to become permanent residents.” That’s amnesty. Dressed up in church clothes, but amnesty.
The Evangelical Immigration Table isn’t some scrappy grassroots prayer circle. It’s a project of the National Immigration Forum — a left-wing, pro-mass migration outfit that has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding from George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundations. Yes, those Soroses. The ones conservatives have been warning about for twenty years while the establishment called us paranoid.
Not so paranoid now, are we?
This group has been at it for over a decade. Back in 2013 — when the infamous “Gang of Eight” amnesty scheme was crawling through the Senate like a bad cold — the Evangelical Immigration Table marched up to Capitol Hill and lobbied Republicans to get in line. They spent a quarter of a million dollars urging Americans to call their legislators and demand they pass a bill that would have given amnesty to somewhere between 11 and 22 million illegal aliens. That’s not ministry. That’s a lobbying blitz with a cross on top.
World Relief, another organization that routinely pushes amnesty, open refugee pipelines, and expanded immigration — and which routinely attacks Trump’s America First agenda — is listed as one of the Evangelical Immigration Table’s leadership organizations. These folks most recently went after the Trump administration for a rule that prevents migrants from getting work permits before completing their asylum process. They also sent a letter to Trump, border czar Tom Homan, and Congress demanding an end to refugee re-vetting policies.
So Cornyn’s faith council isn’t just spiritually inspiring. It’s operationally connected to the Soros network that has spent years trying to erase the southern border.
When Paxton’s campaign flagged the connection, Cornyn fired back with this gem:
“Attacking pastors who have spent decades bringing people to Christ, defending the unborn, and ministering to families in their hardest moments says far more about Ken Paxton’s campaign than it does about them. Texas respects its pastors.”
Classic move. Wrap yourself in the collar and dare anyone to throw a punch. Nobody’s attacking the clergy, Senator. We’re asking why your campaign surrogates are signed onto a Soros-linked amnesty document while Texas voters are being asked to send you back to Washington to fight illegal immigration.
Texas doesn’t just respect its pastors. Texas respects the truth.
And the truth is, the establishment wing of the GOP has a long, expensive habit of finding friends in all the wrong places — and hoping nobody checks the receipts. This time, someone did.
John Cornyn didn’t accidentally build a Faith Advisory Council packed with amnesty advocates tied to Open Society money. That’s not an accident. That’s a worldview.
Texas deserves a senator whose allies don’t cash Soros checks.
