Political Quotes

“many Americans may not know and many in this Senate Chamber may not know that this week we actually passed a milestone on immigration in the United States. This week, less than 3 years into President Biden's term, we have now had more people illegally cross the border in the less than 3 years under the Biden administration than we had under the 8 years of the Obama administration and the 4 years of the Trump administration. If you count both terms of the Obama administration and the Trump administration, that was 6 million people who illegally crossed the border. Under this President, in less than 3 years--not 12, in less than 3--we have now had more than 6 million people illegally cross the border. We had a hearing this week with DHS folks to be able to talk about what in the world is going on. We met not with the policymakers because the policymakers won't meet with us; we met with the folks who are on the line to say: What is the process; how are things actually working; what steps are actually taken; and then what happens from here. I also had the opportunity to be able to look at some of the budget issues and other things that are coming up, which I will explain later, but I wanted to be able to walk through where we really are right now and what is really happening at the border because since the expiration of title 42, in the days that followed that in May, the administration announced: Look, the numbers are dramatically down.…”