Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to be recognized here on the floor of the House of Representatives and take up a topic that I have been hearing about here for some time. It seems as though the Nation is wrapped up in an immigration discussion again. We seem to peak out on our peak concern of immigration issues a couple of times a decade, and a lot of the same topics are debated over and over again. I have been listening to the minority here for some time, a full hour, I believe, and a number of things come to mind that don't seem to match up the same from my perspective as theirs, and one of them is, you know, the discussion about separating families. I have made multiple, multiple trips down to the border. I have traveled most of the miles of the border. I can't say definitively that I have traveled them all--I don't know if anyone has--but I have flown a lot of it, driven a lot of it, walked a fair amount of it, ridden with the Border Patrol sometimes for days on end, and sat down at night and listened in the darkness at some of the most dangerous crossings there are as illegal aliens come through the fence and over the border. I have been there as part of the arrests of the drug smuggling that comes through our border. I have seen MS-13 be among those that we arrested for smuggling drugs into the United States of America.…”