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Rob Portman

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Rob Portman is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio, a position he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Portman previously represented Ohio's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005. He also served as the U.S. Trade Representative under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2006, where he focused on trade policy and international negotiations.

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May 4, 2022

I will tell you what it is. It is very simple. It is the number of sponsors out there, the number of sponsors who have been denied.

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May 4, 2022

We do not enforce the laws in the sense that what the laws say is that we are supposed to detain people pending the process of asylum, and we do not do that.

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May 4, 2022

About a million people came to the border unlawfully and were admitted into the United States.

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May 4, 2022

Title 42 is not sustainable. I get that. It is a public health authority. It is not meant to be an immigration law.

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May 3, 2022

Most of them have claims under the asylum system, a system where, at the end of the process, once their claims are adjudicated, more than 80 percent are denied.

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May 3, 2022

I worked with you then. You were Deputy Secretary. Your deportation numbers are 80 percent lower than they were under the Obama-Biden administration.

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May 3, 2022

I noted that we were facing the worst unlawful migration crisis in our country in two decades.

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May 3, 2022

That would be the lowest percentage in the history of the country.

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May 3, 2022

According to information we have received, about 1.2 million unlawful migrants have been issued a final order of removal.

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May 3, 2022

I come to the Senate floor today once again to talk about what is happening in Ukraine. This is the 10th time in the 10 weeks of session since before the invasion started that I have come to the floor to talk about the atrocities being…

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May 3, 2022

But you and the Administration have a policy not to do that.

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May 3, 2022

more than two decades after September 11, 2001 (9/11) our borders can still be breached by those who mean us harm.

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