Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from New York for making those statements, and I am glad that I was able to yield time to hear them here on the floor myself. Supplemental Funding Mr. President, today is one of those days where I wonder if people know--who are watching C-SPAN or watch reports or are in the Gallery-- what the heck is happening. So I thought I would come down here and maybe tell you what is happening. For about 4 months, Senator Lankford, Senator Sinema, and Senator Murphy got together with the charge of trying to come up with a bipartisan approach to the situation at the border. I think, by most objective measures, everyone I know--because now it even shows up in polls--recognizes that we have got an out-of-control situation at the border. We clearly have people who should come to this country and should be able to ask for asylum, but it has been abused. The cartels are making about $1 billion a year charging tolls to come across the border. And if you don't pay the toll, you are probably going to get killed. You get about one chance to cross the border without paying a toll--$5,000 if you are from Central America, $50,000 if you are from China. But if you try crossing that border--I have been there. They have got a line of sight, and if you try to cross that border without paying that toll, paying a transnational criminal organization, they are going to kill you.…”