On the public record
Every politician on the site, every statement on file. Search, filter, and read the public record.
11,000+·quotes on file
And I want to continue to thank some other Members for making this possible. Yvette Clarke has been very helpful. She worked diligently on H.R. 3107, which passed 395-8. It has been included in the Senate version, and I am glad to have her…
So the Chairman does not want a second round of questions. Is that correct?
The problem with what the President did, of course, is it defied what common sense tells us is going to be required for sustainability of any change to our immigration system and that is consensus.
I hope that we can move meaningful legislation to deal with this issue because it is not going away.
I believe strongly, however, that we can make real progress on immigration reform despite the President's action.
I hope even this Administration would recognize that is not grounds for admission to the United States and would turn the individual around.
The Administration is doing this deliberately, conscious of the implications and deliberately concealing the fact that they are setting forth a path to citizenship for most of these 5 million.
The lawmaking power that we the people delegated to the Federal Government is vested in this body, in the Congress of the United States, not in the Executive.
This is a no-brainer. My I-Squared bill has 26 bipartisan cosponsors.
And yet this program that we are dealing with here would allow an alien to get 'advance parole' and ultimately a green card, ultimately potentially citizenship so long as that person has a meeting with a client in Toronto, rather than…
Does not Federal law currently say, statute on the books, does not Federal law currently say that if you are in the United States unlawfully and you leave the United States while here unlawfully and then you try to come back that you will…
I think it would strike people as fundamentally unfair for the millions of people who have been waiting patiently in line and playing by the rules.
I think it really hurts your case rather than helps it when the President does not obey the rule of law.
Our liberty requires that Government actually obeys the limits on its power including the separation of powers.
I am convinced it violates Federal law as enacted by the Congress.
It is clear that the President and his Administration are removing certain statutory obstacles to citizenship, obstacles that were put in place by law, by acts of Congress.
These instructions say, 'USCIS may in its discretion grant advance parole if you are traveling outside the United States for educational purposes, employment purposes or humanitarian purposes.'