Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the previous question and in support of H.R. 471, the Protecting Americans from Unnecessary Spread upon Entry from COVID-19 Act, the PAUSE Act. This week, I joined Leader McCarthy and several of my colleagues at a meeting with the National Border Patrol Council, representatives of 18,000 members of the Border Patrol, to discuss the crisis at the southern border. Just as we predicted, the number of daily border encounters has been trending dramatically upward since President Biden took office in 2021. The administration has created an untenable situation from which it may take several years, at a minimum, to recover. The irresponsible decision to roll back Title 42, the Public Health and Welfare authority; the halting of border wall construction; the lack of support for frontline law enforcement personnel; the undermining of the Migrant Protection Protocols; and the total absence of a long-term border security plan of any sort have only made matters worse. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is now seeing over 7,000 encounters daily, and the Department of Homeland Security is said to be bracing for a significant mass influx of nearly 18,000 migrants daily when title 42 ends. That is absolutely an untenable situation. As the U.S.…”