Political Quotes

“The ability to secure your border--to follow my good friend from Ohio, the ability to secure your border is actually one of the fundamental responsibilities of a legitimate government. Even former President Obama, within the last few months, has looked at what was happening at the border, and I believe the word he used was ``unsustainable.'' We cannot continue to let this happen. It is a border crisis, whether the administration is willing to call it a border crisis or not. There are drugs coming across, and I know my friend from Tennessee is going to talk about that, as the Senator from Ohio did. More than 2 million people were apprehended trying to cross the border last year. Of that number, more than 171,000 were unaccompanied children. The year before it had been 37,000. In 2020, it was 37,000 people. It should have been a warning sign. Thirty-seven thousand children is bad enough, let alone 171,000--almost four times the number who came the year before. We need to ask ourselves, what are we doing to encourage that? Why would parents let their children come or send their children or why would children come on their own to the border at the numbers of 171,000? Obviously, we don't know exactly how many people actually entered the country illegally.…”