Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, today I rise on behalf of my constituents in western North Carolina to highlight the dire situation at the southern border and to advocate for the enforcement of our Nation's immigration laws. The Biden administration continues to break records and not in a good way. The number of individuals on the terrorist watch list that were apprehended illegally crossing the southwest border increased 2,500 percent from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2023, and a record- breaking 301,000 migrants were caught trying to illegally enter our country in the month of December alone. Our country's border control agents are overwhelmed, and they are underfunded. What has President Biden done? He has done nothing but open our southern border up to more illegal immigrants and chaos. I went to the Tucson sector of the southern border last year to witness the crisis for myself. I saw millions of taxpayer dollars in the form of unused border wall materials rusting away in the hot Arizona sun. {time} 1100 Local law enforcement pointed out to me where the border wall ends at the top of a hill and shared how cartel members sit on the Mexico side of the mountain peak to serve as a lookout. These cartel members are able to see for miles and signal to illegal immigrants when the coast is clear so that migrants can then flood our open border. Many of the illegal immigrants trying to cross our border are military-aged men. They are not families and children.…”