Political Quotes

“there are a lot of things going on in the world right now--a lot. What is happening in Ukraine; Russian aggression; continuing talk about the continual challenges of communist China; dealing with COVID-19 and its effects still worldwide, still here in the United States; still lots of people very frustrated on transportation mandates--on the masks, I should say; other vaccine mandates that are still out there; we have a 7--almost 8--percent now inflation rate that is in the country; cost of living is going up; all the energy issues--there are so many things that we are dealing with around this body of late. I want to bring something to the middle of this conversation that I don't want us to forget about because the media seemed to have pushed it all to the back burner. And I have even had people recently catch me and say, Apparently, things are going much better on our southern border because I don't hear about it anymore. Well, it has not gotten better. And I want to bring a couple of issues and one in particular that I am very concerned about of where things are going right now, on our enforcement on the southern border. This chart walks through the last 10 years of illegal crossings that had been actually apprehended, engaged--the new term is ``encountered'' that the Biden administration is using. This is over the last 10 years, and this is quarter by quarter of what has actually occurred. You will see the rise and fall over multiple times.…”