Joe Garcia: “We urge the Subcommittee to demand that the Department of the Interior commit to abide by the wishes of the tribal…”

Just yesterday, Speaker Boehner wrote the President asking him to send troops to the border, to send National Guard troops to the border. To do what? These are children. They need help, not a gun in their face.

I ask this subcommittee to do the same for Indian country in the next highway bill.

We are a Nation of laws because law provides order and structure and predictability and peace and equality and justice.

We can keep looking to the past, and there will not be a solution.