Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Colorado for organizing this Special Order and recognizing me to address it. I would like to say at the start of this that the folks that had the Special Order ahead of us had not read the bill that they were expounding upon, and it would be impossible for them to have done so. So I want to remind the body of that, Mr. Speaker, and then address the No Sanctuary Cities Act. It is this: that we saw what happened in San Francisco when the murderer of Kate Steinle had been deported five times. He was a seven- time felon, five-time deportee. He still came back, and he came to San Francisco because he knew that it is a sanctuary city, and if he got crossways with the law for whatever it might be, sleeping on the street or shoplifting or any of the additional felonies that were brought against him, they were not going to notify immigration officials. They were going to turn him back loose on the streets of San Francisco. If he was taken care of as an indigent, they would turn him loose on the streets of San Francisco. So Kate Steinle now lies in her grave, her family grieves for her loss, and America felt that pain. San Francisco is a sanctuary city, and now the entire State of California has declared themselves a sanctuary State. I think, Mr. Speaker, about the hole in the wall. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they had a spot in the canyon there where you had to ride through a notch to get in there, and they posted a guard there.…”