Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first he came for the Dreamers. It was in September of last year when President Trump announced that he was going to abolish the DACA Program, an Executive order by President Obama that protected 790,000 young people who came forward, registered with the Federal Government, paid a $500 filing fee, went through an extensive criminal background check, proved that they had completed at least a level of education, and made clear that they were no threat to this country. For that, they were allowed, under the Executive DACA order, to live in the United States without fear of deportation for 2 years at a time, renewable, and to work in this country. Last September, President Trump decided to abolish that protection. He challenged Congress. He said: Now it is up to you. Pass a law. Many of us took him seriously. I worked on a bipartisan basis with many Senators, including Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, Senator Michael Bennet, and Senator Bob Menendez, and we put a lot of hours into it. We wrote a bill to answer the President's challenge. We produced the bill and presented it to him, and he rejected it. He was not going to allow us to come to a bipartisan conclusion to solve this problem without changing other parts of the law, which he demanded. We couldn't find bipartisan consensus for the President's proposal.…”