Political Quotes

“I thank the judge from Texas as I reclaim. I came across the language that I said I would look for in President Calderon's speech where he said, I fully respect the right of any country to enact and enforce its own laws, but what we need today is to fix a broken system. I would argue that, yes, there's a lot of burden on the system, but I am not seeing the Department of Justice come to us and ask for more money for judges, more money for prosecutors. We also heard in our dialogue today that they are bringing charges and prosecuting if someone has 500 or more pounds of marijuana they are smuggling into the United States. I have personally pulled out of the false bed of a pickup about 240 pounds of marijuana. That wasn't enough to get him prosecuted when the threshold was 250. It's astonishing for me to think how much is 500 pounds of marijuana and how you might let somebody go and not prosecute. No wonder there's not a restraint there if we're not willing to put these resources in. And I'm not getting a number when I ask how much money are we spending on the southern border to defend that border. I want to know how much a mile. I can't get that answer back from Janet Napolitano because the budget is broken up in different categories and they mix and match and slide it around. We put this together and we've just tracked now the increases. But about 3 years ago, the numbers turned out to be $8 billion on our southern border. Now it's increased by an additional 50 percent.…”