Political Quotes

“First of all, it is Congress' authority to establish immigration policy, and when we open up and provide that opportunity to the U.S. Trade Representative to inject immigration issues into any and all trade agreements that they might make, that is voluntarily giving up congressional authority that is constitutionally vested in the United States Congress. We have a responsibility to defend our oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution of the United States; and once we move outside of that, our Founding Fathers knew better. That is why they put that in the Constitution. We are not allowed to amend a trade agreement. So by not being allowed to amend a trade agreement, that means that they can inject immigration issues into a trade agreement and those of us who believe in free trade, but do not believe that we should set up the authority with a Trade Representative to bring in any limit of immigration, that puts us in a position of having to decide, devil's choice, are we for the trade or are we against immigration policy?”