Alexander Acosta: “These individuals served their Nation and they deserve not just to be treated with respect, but they deserve to have a…”

I think this puts the American people in a really difficult situation because every year they ask, 'Are we going to get our visas? Are we not going to get our visas?'

What I am suggesting is that we have a healthcare system that imposes a number of mandates and that is as a Nation getting increasingly, increasingly expensive.

The least we can do is see that they can pay their bills and put food on the table after their lifetime of service.

I think what happened, as you describe it, is offensive.