Political Quotes

“so far this year, 1,624,790 people have illegally crossed our southwest border--1,624,790 so far. We have at least 1.6 million people who have also been designated ``got-aways'' in the last 3 years; that is, they crossed our southwest border, and the Border Patrol could see them, but they couldn't get to them. Let me give you some context on that. As this body knows well, because we have talked about it over and over and over again, in the first 3 years of this administration, we have had more illegal crossings on our southwest border than in the previous 12 years combined--more in the last 3 years than we had in the previous 12 years combined. If you want to just drill down, 1 year under President Biden has as many illegal crossings as we had under 4 years of President Trump. Yesterday, we had more than 5,000 people illegally cross our southwest border--yesterday. That has been true every day, I believe, but 3, in the last 3 months, that we have had more than 5,000 people a day. Now, the national news media has looked away from the southwest border, but those who live on the southwest border can't look away. They are still facing it every single day. And in cities and communities across the entire country, it is still happening every single day, day after day, as this President has looked away from what is happening on our southern border.…”