Political Quotes

“I have come to the floor, briefly, to talk about two subjects. One relates to a situation that I have been updated on of a gentleman who has been detained by ICE out in California, and I want to talk a little bit about it. We have to go back to 'Retrograde.' When we were leaving Afghanistan several years ago, my office spent a lot of time working with various nonprofits and veterans' advocacy organizations to do our very best to get people out of Afghanistan who had served alongside U.S. servicemembers, and we met with a lot of success. Thank God for former special operators and others who were outside of the boundary. We were literally in a network of coordinating the positioning of families to get to the Kabul Airport--HKIA they call it. It was to get them to a specific gate and get them out, them and their families. Why were we doing that? It was because the people who helped special operators and forces in Afghanistan had marks on them. They would be murdered if they were found by the Taliban for supporting and working alongside American citizens, which they did, and many of them lost their lives. OK. I just became informed over the past day about the detention of a gentleman who had worked for the military as an interpreter, I think, for 3 years directly and then had worked with a contractor. Unfortunately, he was not one of the ones who got out. He was in northern Afghanistan at the time.”