Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address something that I keep hearing from my constituents, and quite frankly, is the top issue on people's minds all across the entire country: The situation at the border. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have several Members join me for this Special Order hour to speak about this issue. Mr. Speaker, whatever angle you look at this, this is something that is considered a crisis. Whether you are looking at the national security implications; whether you are looking at the lack of order at the actual border; whether you are looking at what our agents in our offices are going through; whether you look at the disrespect for the rule of law and the abuse in the asylum system; whether you look also at the humanitarian crisis and what women and children are going through as they are getting trafficked--as we all know, the report of missing children within the care of the State, over 85,000--there is no upside to this crisis. There doesn't seem to be a turnaround of this situation either. Mr. Speaker, I will be addressing my colleagues in the House today quite extensively about this issue because it is, again, something that has been top of mind for us. It is not a new subject. It is not a new issue. It is something that we have seen continue to get worse and worse as the months and the weeks, and actually the years, have gone by. This administration has lost complete control, if at any point they had any, of the border.…”