Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Immigration is a good thing. Immigrants are less likely to commit crime, more likely to start small businesses, help us economically.

If you cared, then we would update our immigration laws for the first time since basically I was born so that people could apply safely.

You have people like Governor Abbott saying he would shoot migrants coming across the border if he would not get prosecuted for murder for it.

If I was a cartel leader, I would be picking the Republican policies being proposed in H.R. 2 every day of the week.

By making it harder for people to apply for parole, by making it harder for people to seek asylum, Republican policies are exactly what the cartels would like.

We have not had a comprehensive immigration reform in this country in 30-plus years. It has been a failure of this Congress, and if the Republicans really wanted solutions, they would actually work on fixing this system here versus the…

They are about cruelty. They are not about actually addressing the problems on the ground.

I think it is political theater that we are seeing in this Committee room, that we are seeing in the halls of Congress right now to not humanize the reality of what we are actually talking about.

The idea of slamming the door when we desperately need these migrants, when we desperately need it, and what we need is an orderly process.

When countries that adopt anti-immigrant policies invariably end up, especially with the demographic trends that the United States has, end up in economic stagnation.

Many of these Republican legislatures would rather roll back child labor laws and put 11-and 13-year-olds back in the workplace than allow immigrants into their community.

U.S. population growth right now is at the lowest in its entire history.

You know, there has been this question about why would we want to make documented legal pathways to immigration more accessible in this country.

I want to know, does any American want to see children in cages again? I do not think they do.

What we know is that House Bill 2 is not designed to actually solve that problem.

The Army is diverse, our military is diverse, and the United States will continue to be a place that welcomes diversity, inclusion, and that diversity is here to stay.

The idea that our work today upholds the national security is, in my opinion, a joke and crazy.

I have been going through some of the documents prepared for this hearing, and I just had a clarifying question here.

In the words of Yogi Berra, it is like deja vu all over again.

Oil and gas companies already control more than 12 million acres of Federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

What they're using and what they're doing is taking impeachment and taking all of the most serious procedures that we have as a country, and they're learning to use it for political -- they're politically weaponizing it for an election…

Impeachment is one of the most serious procedures that we have in this country. And it has to tie directly to a crime or misdemeanor or some other direct action that we find completely incompatible with the presidency.

What we're seeing, though, is that they can't even name what they would impeach the president for.

If the Supreme Court does come to that conclusion, it would have profound and destabilizing impacts on the presidency and for the country.

We have called for him to recuse himself in all cases related to January 6. He has in the past. And frankly, this truly is not even about partisan point scoring. This is about the integrity of the court.