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On the recordJanuary 30, 2019
What is stupid is not securing the border. Mr. Speaker, let's just cut to the chase. If Democrats would support now what they supported then, there never would have been a shutdown. Ten years ago, all kinds of Senators--Senators Biden, Feinstein, Schumer, Obama, and Clinton--all supported money for a barrier on the border. Senator Obama said this: ``We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of our immigration laws.'' Secretary Clinton said this: ``I voted numerous times as a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.'' Oh, how times have changed. Where are the Democrats today? What is the position of the left today? Congressman Blumenauer: Abolish ICE. Candidate Clinton: We need a borderless hemisphere. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives said: Walls are immoral. And the person they selected to give the State of the Union response, a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, said she is okay with noncitizens voting. Oh, how times have changed. All we are asking for is, do what you said before, be for what you were for before, and let's build a border security wall. Let's focus on one simple thing here. Let's do what is best for the country. Everyone knows a sovereign Nation should control its borders.…
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio
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Jan 30, 2019

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