Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, this amendment prohibits the executive branch from deploying troops on the southern border if the purpose of this deployment is to enforce immigration law. According to the Congressional Research Service, the armed services do not have a clear legislative mandate to protect or patrol the border. That is under the guidance of other aspects of our legislative and executive branch. The militarization of our immigration system, particularly under this administration, must be stopped. This amendment ensures that our troops are to be deployed only in the most exigent circumstances to address actual national security threats. This amendment would rescind the authority granted in the 2016 NDAA, which empowers the President to needlessly deploy troops to the border to enforce immigration law. The amendment would not interfere with any mission that is truly humanitarian or a true national security concern. I reserve the balance of my time.”