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Secretary Mayorkas in a private meeting with Border Patrol... admitted that more than 85 percent of illegal aliens encountered at the Southwest border were being released into the country.

There are times I reflect, now, and I say to myself maybe I wish that mother, that woman who could have received training and been a responsible gun owner, would have had an opportunity to protect her children and herself from that husband.

We, the United States Government, the executive branch of the United States Government, de facto right now, as we speak, are subsidizing child slavery.

What do you think that woman was thinking after she was out there; she points a gun and shoots that guy? How will that affect her for the rest of her life?

We are the leader. I believe we are the best Nation on the face of the Earth in every way, and this is one of those ways.

People in America, in the United States of America, do like to have their independence. They like to have their autonomy. They like to have their freedom.

This is a stupid idea.

It is a bad idea. It is bad for truckers. It is bad for the supply chain. It is bad for the United States of America.

Talk about Big Brother.

He wants to strip you of the ability to protect your family, your community, and your country.

I am here to say that this policy, in my opinion, is arbitrary. It is dangerous. It is overreaching.