Nothing breaks my heart more than the notion that these parents and their children facing unspeakable problems in their home countries took a risk that every parent in this room cannot even imagine taking.
Lankford expresses deep empathy for parents risking their children's safety for a better future.
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Congress has taken action to ensure taxpayer dollars are not funding organizations that perform abortions, but our work to protect taxpayers and ensure federal law is followed does not stop there," said Lankford.
The U.S. Constitution protects my right to call their rhetoric what it is — racist, ignorant, and antisemitic.
In the Oct. 8 world, we each have the responsibility to call out antisemitism wherever we see it, to defend human dignity, and to speak out for the inherent right of religious liberty for all people.
Hyde was a bipartisan agreement five decades ago, and it has been included in appropriations bills every year since. We should keep that commitment in place.
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