Political Quotes

“Donald Trump didn't fix the problem; he delayed the problem. That is what happened. That is what those pictures reflect. He didn't fix the problem. He would say to those kids: Get out of here. Go back to Mexico. Maybe you have a parent there, maybe you have somebody who will take care of you, but get out of here. That was one way to ``solve'' the problem, I presume. Those kids didn't go away. The fear that they have for being home didn't go away. Now, I have said, Madam Speaker, this is something that we all need to deal with from a compassionate standpoint, from a legal standpoint, and from a human standpoint, which I guess is redundant to ``compassionate.'' But the fact of the matter is that President Trump did not solve this problem; he simply delayed it. When he left, the pressure was so great because they did not believe that this President would simply throw them to the wolves, take them from their parents, treat them as refuse. We need to deal with this, and, hopefully, we will. Hopefully we will get comprehensive immigration reform. I will say again that one of the reasons that we have the problem of not adjudicating these people quickly is because we don't have enough judges.…”