Tom McClintock: “The legislation by Congressman Hastings is based on numerous hearings held by this subcommittee and the full committee…”

The Chief of the Border Patrol told us at Eagle Pass that he says, I am standing in front of an open fire hydrant with a bucket. I do not need more buckets. I need somebody to shut off the fire hydrant.

These are people who promised their constituents not to raise their taxes. And those five no votes just voted for the biggest tax increase in American history.

The question is, how many children have been placed with known MS-13 gang members? We know of one. What do you know?

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?