Political Quotes

“Let's be clear. On the problems with our immigration laws, the gentleman mentioned asylum. We all know right now, somebody comes across the border on a daily basis--in the thousands on some days. And they come across and claim asylum, coming through illegal parts of our border, not the ports of entry. The President has made it clear: If you are seeking asylum, there is a legal way to do it. Come through a port of entry and properly seek asylum. Many people know there are coyotes, people who make money human trafficking people across the border, and they read from a script. They all know the script. Whether they are seeking asylum or not, they just read the script, and they are let in. We see it all the time, and they know the game. It is a game, because it is a loophole in the law that we have tried to fix and haven't gotten any help from the other side. But they know that if they read the script and they know--ironically, they have come through multiple countries that have offered them asylum, and they have turned down that asylum. So that is not the right way to do it. The President said: Come the right way. Nobody said--you have never seen the President say get rid of immigration laws. He said fix the immigration laws, secure the border, have a legal way to come here, and get rid of things like the visa lottery system and turn it into a merit-based system to make this law work better for the people who want to come here and seek the American Dream.…”