Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I strongly oppose H.R. 6136. Far from being the moderate and compromise bill that has been advertised, this bill is extreme and unreasonable. This bill eliminates the diversity visa program and cuts off even children and brothers and sisters from reunifying with their families. The bill even revokes the approval of over 3 million family members who have been waiting for years to reunify with their U.S. citizen brothers, sisters, and parents. While it claims to end President Trump's cruel family separation policy, nothing in the bill actually prohibits family separation or limits criminal prosecutions. And the bill requires the long-term detention of families and children while actually removing requirements that detention facilities be safe, sanitary, and appropriate for children. It eliminates important asylum protections and would protect many bona fide asylum seekers from even applying for protection in the first place. In addition, this legislation spends $23.4 billion to fund Donald Trump's offensive and unnecessary border wall. Finally and most importantly, this bill fails to provide a certain path to citizenship for the Dreamers. Donald Trump created havoc when he made the decision to strip legal status from young Americans who were brought to the U.S. as young children and who know only this country as their own.…”