"As anyone in southeastern Arizona knows well, the border crisis and crises are not a new phenomenon for us."
"They are a result of a combination of the broken immigration system, a lack of desire by the Federal Government to enforce the laws."
"CBP officials have publicly stated these vast areas of Federal land provide transnational criminal organizations significant opportunities to cross their products."
"When ports of entry are closed, trade and commerce suffer."
"I do want to take time, at this point right now, to thank them for all their work and being on the front lines for us every single day."
"I introduced H.R. 5585."
"We were proud to pass that bill through the U.S. House of Representatives last week with bipartisan support."
"Is it too much to ask that the farmers of southern Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas be able to raise their crops and families without being overrun by illegal immigrants and drug runners?"
"Requiring asylum seekers to seek legal status to immigrate at a Consulate of the US State Department and to have robust enforcement of our laws at the border would restore safety and an environment on..."
"I always say that at home it is not. At home, we have mayors on both sides of the aisle..."
"this is not a partisan issue at home. At the border it is not. In Washington, where we fight every day, it is, but right here it is not."
"we have to do something different because we are changing lives every day in this country because we are doing nothing."