On the recordJune 21, 2018
Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act. Instead of working in a bipartisan manner, like open rules and committee hearings, Members of this body now must vote on two bills that will hurt immigrant families and communities by worsening the family separation crisis on the border and funding the divisive border wall. H.R. 4760 is a hardline anti-immigration bill that fails to provide a permanent path to citizenship for our Dreamers. It makes family reunification much more difficult. It provides $25 billion for the Trump wall. This is while we are going to be confronted with a farm bill that cuts food for starving and poor children in America. It would expand the family separation, and it harms children. Madam Speaker, this is not the America I know. This bill is nothing more than an attempt to appease the administration and the most extreme faction of the Republican Party.
