Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I will give a couple of examples of the type of torture that the language in this bill supports and endorses. One provision, section 404, prohibits funds for asylum officers to adjudicate fear claims, which is the point of our asylum program. Republicans include the perfect provision to demonstrate that they value disrupting due process for migrants more than they value speeding up results for their constituents. They want to block asylum officers, who receive extensive training and face enough difficulties as it is, from assessing whether refugees have a reasonable claim to asylum. While Republicans continue to engage in massive hyperbole, leaving people with the impression that people are storming the border, this bill actually prevents a lawful, orderly asylum process from occurring because the Republicans defund it in this bill. Another section eliminates the inspections of detention facilities. All I have heard since the MAGA majority gaveled in this Congress is oversight, oversight, oversight. Yet, when it comes to our detention facilities where vulnerable women and families are held indefinitely without a trial or legal counsel, Republicans want no oversight at all. These inspections are critical. These inspectors ought to get combat pay for what they walk into. At one facility in my home State, Mr.…”