Joe Garcia: “I would suggest that people go down to the border and visit. I think you will see that they are refugees, too.”

What makes America special is that people come here, they assimilate, they become fully American with all of the rights and responsibilities that citizenship bestows.

I ask this committee to empower Tribal Government in the next reauthorization measure by giving Tribes the resources they need.

I come from a rich culture in the Pueblo country in Ohkay Owingeh, and so I think it is important that I didn't learn all of the things that I knew about social life and culture and language and all of that in an education setting.

the plight of the indigenous peoples and the dire need for both Federal investment in our Tribal Nations is personal to me.