Xavier Becerra: “In fact, as the gentleman from California knows, under the Democratic watch 2 years ago and with a Democratic President…”

“In fact, as the gentleman from California knows, under the Democratic watch 2 years ago and with a Democratic President, for the first time in the history of this country we got a President who was willing to give moneys to States to reimburse them for the cost of incarceration of undocumented immigrant felons. We, also, for the first time in more than a decade got an increased amount of funding for the INS to conduct border enforcement activities so they would not have to work with outdated equipment, with broken night scopes, all of the things that were being requested by the INS which certainly did not get fulfilled before the President, President Clinton, took office. So certainly we have to acknowledge that there have been efforts, and hopefully we will recognize that they have been bipartisan efforts, not only by one particular party or another.”