Tom McClintock

Congress can't fix this by laws that won't be passed--or by bills that won't be passed or laws that won't be enforced when they are passed.

If this administration wanted to secure the border, they've had three years to take action.

Immigration law is an enumerated power of the Congress. That should be indisputable.

The Constitution must be upheld in all matters.

The Nation that will not enforce its immigration laws has no immigration laws.

The courts could do that and--but that still is the province of the courts, not of the Congress.

Its effect is now being felt across the country. Its impact on our schools, our hospitals, our social safety net, law enforcement, public safety, and national security is absolutely catastrophic.

It's going to be solved by the American people electing an administration that's actually dedicated to enforcing our laws.

I think Congress could authorize the States to enforce immigration under their congressional powers.

They love to conflate legal immigrants, like your family, who have obeyed all our laws, with illegal immigrants.

How does it improve access to healthcare for Americans when we pack our emergency rooms and maternity wards with illegals demanding free healthcare?

Now, we have had five million illegal immigrants enter this country and be released into it, 3.3 million deliberate released, another 1.7 million gotaways.

We have already heard of American Veterans kicked out of nursing homes to make way for illegal aliens.

How does it improve our schools by packing classrooms with non-English speaking students?

The Democrat's witness says we simply need more money to process people into the country faster, allow them to stay, and provide even more free services to support them. Will this reduce illegal immigration or increase it?

I just wanted to be clear that you are confusing the two.

American mothers are forced to drive three hours to deliver their babies, because every maternity bed in their local hospital is taken up by a law breaker who has no legal right to be here.

Well, let's just finish the math here. Gallup, two years ago, estimated from their surveys there are 42 million people living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean who intend to come here now that they can.

The very day he took office, Joe Biden issued Executive Orders that opened our borders to the world and began the largest illegal mass migration in recorded history.

The legal immigrants I know find this infuriating. They find it patronizing. They find it insulting.

That estimate is $68,000 net cost to U.S. taxpayers per illegal immigrant.

How does it strengthen our social safety net to allow in five million impoverished people requiring care?

Indeed, one estimate from New York City is that the cost of simply educating, let alone housing, and feeding these recent arrivals, will cost the city schools one billion dollars next year.

That is five million total.

How does it make our communities safer by making it all but impossible to deport criminal illegal aliens?