Political Quotes

“I thank my colleagues who were just on the floor discussing one of the biggest challenges that we face in this country, which is having a secure southwest border. It is, in fact, a national security problem and a homeland security problem, and it is the Biden's own policies that have caused this to happen. This avalanche of humanity at our border that is a colossal challenge to our Nation is due to specific decisions taken by President Joe Biden and his lack of leadership to recognize it is a disaster. Then to do nothing about it, compounds it. Since President Biden took office, there have been 7.1 million known border crossings across our southwest border; almost a million got- aways, these are people that we don't know that crossed the border. In December, as my colleagues noted, a record 300,000 migrants were apprehended at the border. Yet, President Biden has still not agreed to work with Congress to solve this problem. Mr. Speaker, 300,000 in one month; never before have we seen numbers like that in 20 years. Mr. Speaker, I went down to the border a few days ago with our new Speaker Mike Johnson. Over 50 of my colleagues were on that trip to Eagle Pass. That was my eighth trip to the border, which is about eight times more than Joe Biden has been to the border in 50 years of public service.…”