Political Quotes

“Madam President, we are seeing record numbers of people coming to the U.S. Mexican border. I am told 63 different countries have folks that have arrived at our border. In the latest numbers released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP, they encountered almost 190,000 people coming to the United States illegally through the southern border last month. That is the highest monthly number of encounters by CBP in two decades. This is where we are now. That number is up 471 percent from June 2020. Across the board, every category of CBP encounter at the southwest land border--single adults, unaccompanied children, individuals in a family unit--they are surging in 2021, including in the hot summer months, when it has traditionally been that is when it falls. It is important because these people coming across in the hot summer months are at increased risk for death from dehydration and heat exhaustion. With June's tally, CBP's migrant encounters surpassed 1 million for the fiscal year. Now, in context, the last fiscal year had 460,000 encounters; fiscal year 2019, 980,000. That year was labeled a humanitarian catastrophe. That was for the entire year. Now, we are speaking of 1 million, and we have 3 months left to go in this fiscal year. On Monday, Texas and the national media broadcast videos of migrants trying to force their way past Texas border guards.…”