Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor today to offer remarks about an issue of utmost important to this body and to the American people--the ongoing negotiations over the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. I should explain the justification for these young people. The children were brought here by their parents. Their parents crossed the border without papers, violating the law, but the children cannot be held guilty for the sins of their parents. That is why we feel it is very legitimate to do this humanitarian thing of legalizing DACA children--not in and of itself, but, as you heard from my colleague from North Carolina and you will hear from other people, the necessity of making sure that we have border security, that we do away with chain migration, and that we also do away with diversity visas--this is the scope of negotiations that ought to be going on to get a compromise for the humanitarian reason of giving certainty to these young DACA people. Those things were narrowed at the White House a week ago Tuesday, not the famous Thursday meeting that you heard so much about last weekend but the meeting of 23 Republican and Democrat Members of both the House and Senate. When you get a bicameral, bipartisan group of people together with the President--and you want to do that because you want to make sure that when you reach an agreement, the President will sign it--it seems to me that is a significant way to move forward.…”