Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we are here to talk about the promise that we made to the American people. As the proud son of immigrants, my great-grandmother escaped the child bride situation in Colombia and came here with the shirt on her back and her little girl and just enough skills to make it through in America, and she did it legally. We are a compassionate country who supports legal immigration, but we are here to talk about illegal immigration and the one chance we have left to solve that. Border security is a bipartisan issue, and it is not just about a wall or a fence. It is about stopping things like illegal immigration and human trafficking, because seeing little girls sold into sex slavery into this country is not a compassionate thing for the American taxpayer to be a part of. It is about declining economic conditions for America's working poor, knowing that the average high school dropout in America makes about $25,000 a year and, over the last 20 years, that has increased the amount of people, through illegal immigration, who don't have a high school diploma by about 25 percent. Who is standing up for the working poor that were born in this country? And then there is the abuse of the American taxpayer. Pennsylvanians, where I represent a portion of the population, paid an additional $1.3 billion in taxes this year for things like education, incarceration, healthcare, and a whole raft of social services.…”