Joe Garcia: “We can keep looking to the past, and there will not be a solution.”

That is the binding contract the United States entered into with Tribes, and from those treaties and other laws has arisen the United States' sacred trust responsibility to the Indian Nations and our peoples.

I introduced the ENLIST Act, H.R. 2377, which authorizes the enlistment in the Armed Forces of undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children and who are otherwise qualified for enlistment.

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

No matter who you think is at fault, the fact of the matter is that there are hundreds of kids arriving at our border each day, hungry, thirsty, often traumatized by the journey.