Political Quotes

“last night President Trump tried to convince Congress and the American people that there is a crisis at our southern border. It was little more than a rehash of spurious arguments and misleading statistics the President has been using for weeks. President Trump once again tried to claim there was a crisis at the border. The fact is, migrant border crossings have been declining for nearly two decades. The President inveighed against drugs pouring over the border, but the vast majority of heroin enters the United States through legal ports of entry in trucks and on airplanes. The President and his allies have been claiming that nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists have been stopped from entering the United States. They say that is a reason for the border wall. But nearly every single one of those apprehensions occurred in airports, not on our southern border. In a recent report, Donald Trump's State Department concluded that there is no credible evidence that terrorist groups were trying to enter the United States through the southern border. In a report on the President's strategy to combat terrorist travel, sent to Congress by President Trump on December 21--the day the shutdown began--the National Security Council, appointed by President Trump, did not even mention a wall or a barrier to stop terrorists from entering the country. The President continues to fearmonger, and he makes up the facts. This is a Presidency that is in crisis.…”