Political Quotes

“I rise today to discuss the growing crisis of unaccompanied alien children streaming across our southern border. It has been called a mounting crisis, including the security crisis it is. There are some 52,000 who have come across in the last several months, according to recent reports--up from just a few thousand 1 year ago--and the threat is that will grow significantly. It is continuing to grow. This has been called a humanitarian crisis, and it is. These are, in most cases, vulnerable children who were taken through by human smugglers, by drug cartels, by other folks who do not--absolutely do not--have their best interests in mind. These children are often mistreated in all sorts of despicable ways through that journey. How do we address this crisis? It seems to me we need to get our core response right, and the only way to stop this increasing flow is to make clear this activity will not be successful. The only way to do that is to detain these illegal aliens in our country and keep them under our supervision until we quickly deport them to their countries of origin. That is the only response, the only message, the only visual that will stop this mounting flow from continuing to grow. That is the most humanitarian response that will stop more and more of these Central and South American children from being put in this illegal trade and being victimized along the way. Now, unfortunately, so far, that is not the response President Obama has made.…”