Jamie Raskin

Just yesterday, a 20-year veteran Federal law enforcement officer from the U.S. Border Patrol told the Washington Examiner he Is demoralized because Republicans in Congress are abandoning his agency and forcing it to fend for itself.

House Democrats are ready to work with anyone to enact commonsense legislation to address the decades-long broken immigration system.

So, we are no more than 48 hours away from the fraudulent impeachment of the Secretary of Homeland Security who was impeached simply for performing his legal duties under severe resource constraints.

I am not quite sure what he is referring to, but certainly not the ugly bastions of communism that Donald Trump celebrates every day.

America is a country that believes in freedom--for women, too.

I admire the audacity and the courage of my colleagues for calling this hearing, but I am baffled why they think this is to their political advantage.

Do we want immigration solutions, border solutions, or do we just want problems to run against to divide the country?

I think what happened in the Third District of New York replacing Mr. Santos with our colleague, Tom Suozzi, demonstrates to them what America understands.

Donald Trump does not want a border solution; he wants a border problem to run on.

What we heard from the Republicans is, no way, we are not going to help our democratic allies.

President Biden has said we need to get aid, $60 billion to our allies in Ukraine.

The democracy and freedoms are under siege all over the world right now.

Deborah Birx, who was former President Trump's White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, stated that a sequence of missteps and mistakes made by the prior administration's pandemic response cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.

It's been turned into this authoritarian cult of personality obsessed with conspiracy theory and disinformation.

He doesn't want a solution, he wants a scapegoat.

The GOP is the MAGA party. It's Trump's party, and they just want to blow everything up.

Donald Trump needs something to run on.

They are just not taking yes for an answer.

It's just a laughingstock impeachment. It's just mad hat excursion for them to go in and try to impeach a Cabinet secretary.

The Republicans are just not good at counting their votes.

In closing, I would encourage all of my colleagues to join us in honoring the life of Mr. Ho by naming a post office in Los Angeles after him. Madam Speaker, I urge passage of H.R. 599, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers, but I encourage all of my colleagues to join us in honoring the life of Dr. Hill by naming the post office in San Bernardino after her. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close, as well. I encourage my colleagues to join me in honoring the life of Ms. Chang by naming the post office in Boston, Massachusetts after her, and we will all be proud to see it…

I think that you articulated well what most American people feel, which is that we should discourage as much as possible illegal immigration into the country and encourage and proliferate possibilities for lawful immigration.

Those agents also explained that DHS Secretary Mayorkas' policies have been successful in reducing unlawful crossings while also expanding lawful pathways for people fleeing countries experiencing economic and political turmoil and…