The United States will not countenance any effort or action, short term or long term, to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

If we allow for whatever reasons, whatever security--border security, counternarcotics--for ethnic cleansing to take place and we look the other way, we send a global message of what our priorities are.

It is a hollow promise without action.

Thank you for the work you do. Your unwavering commitment and leadership in combating human trafficking here in the United States and around the world is truly remarkable.

This is a problem for the United States of America.

The United States will not countenance any effort or action, short term or long term, to ethnically cleanse or commit other atrocities against the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

What happened to the idea of the rule of law?

The cartel's picking and choosing who enters our country right now instead of us, and that is a significant threat to this country.

Over 20 years ago, the U.S. Congress approved and the President signed legislation, historic bipartisan legislation that I authored, known as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

At the time too, many people thought when we said trafficking, including a number of U.S. attorneys that I talked to about what were they doing, they said, you're talking about weapons, right? You're talking about drugs, right? And I said…

This child sex tourism has got to be stopped, and one way of doing is to say, you tell us where you're going.

Congressman Smith's the SECURE Act in particular will help find these kids that this administration has claimed on record that it's not their problem anymore despite these children being at great risk of sexual abuse and other forms of…

We can't let this tragic issue fall into the pit where partisan divide causes important causes to be relegated to the cutting room floor as we have seen all too often.

We cannot show favoritism in this issue to countries that we may have an allied relationship with because we're worried about upsetting a balance of trade or some other issue.

The Presidents of Guatemala and Honduras both share the value they see in policies like International Megan's Law which allows the U.S. to alert our allies when registered sex offenders are entering their countries.

I do not understand how Section 907 leads to a more peaceful resolution when they are in the verge of ethnically cleansing 120,000 Armenians in Karabakh.

We don't take care of our own people. Our veterans still don't get what they need.

having that comfort that comes with it.