Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge the House to pass the Venezuela TPS Act of 2019, which would grant Venezuelan nationals urgently needed temporary protective status in the United States of America. The Maduro regime has perpetrated egregious human rights abuses, inflicting an economic and humanitarian crisis on the people of Venezuela. Venezuelans fleeing starvation, violence, and political persecution have sought refuge in the United States. My district has the largest Venezuelan population in the U.S. So many of my south Florida neighbors know the brutality of the Maduro regime firsthand and fled here seeking safety. The stories are heartbreaking: children kidnapped from playgrounds; family members dying of hunger, violence, and lack of medicine; individuals who were jailed for speaking out against the government; businesses confiscated. Extending TPS will ensure Venezuelans are shielded from the imminent danger of deportation and can obtain work permits. President Trump has called the Maduro regime a ``nightmare of poverty, hunger, and death.'' He said in June that he was looking ``very seriously at extending TPS to Venezuela.'' But a recent letter from the USCIS stated the administration is simply ``monitoring'' the situation in Venezuela, something it has done for months.…”