Tom McClintock: “The bill if enacted would provide an unprecedented Federal statutory express recognition of and commitment to California…”

If a little waif showed up on your doorstep the first thing you are going to do is get that little child back to its family and its home.

Here's some of the problems that we're facing. Every sheriff in the State of California in times past used to be able to ask immigration status of those who are arrested and coming through our jails. That no longer is in existence.

When we were at the Yuma border a year ago we talked to a group of rank and file Border Patrol agents and one thing I said is, look, we are the Congress. We cannot enforce the laws. We write laws so what laws do you need us to write?

When the history of this administration is written, I would not want to be you looking back on what historians say about your tenure.