John Bel Edwards: “I am here today to urge the Congress and the Administration to do two things.”

At this time the Chair recognizes Former Members of Congress President, the Honorable Barbara Comstock, for remarks.

Every year since 1996, Congress has failed to pass our annual spending bills on time. Every year since 1996, despite work still left to be done, August rolls around and Congress goes home, kicking the can down the road and leaving funding…

We are patrolling, and there will be consequences for breaches of the law.

Similarly, illegal aliens who are deportable have no allegiance or enduring tie to the United States. Foreigners here on visas have an allegiance politically and legally to their home countries, not to the United States, so the same logic…