David Cicilline

You can get these for other types of guns, too. For example, the AR-15?

So, Director, my first question is can you tell me what a Glock switch is?

I apologize for the manner, in which, you have been treated in this hearing, but I hope you understand they are not actually interested in having an answer from you.

We should be talking about how we support the ATF and enable it to do its job, but today again we are here to attack the ATF and to try to even abolish it.

To use the Chair's words, you know what Americans can't stand? You know what they hate about this town? They can't stand gun violence and they can't stand the fact that the Judiciary Committee has done nothing about it.

Again, I reiterate the fact that the children under Trump were snatched away from their families, purposely, to discourage them from coming.

Many outlets'--and some of my colleagues have latched onto this--headlines say that the Biden Administration has lost 85,000 children.

I abhor the abuse of children. I have been at the border, and I have held unaccompanied children--desperately sent, because they come from desperate circumstances.

If you care about crime, you would care about gun violence.

You know what the problem with crime in America is? Gun violence.

Because it ignores the fundamental reality that our country has been made stronger, more vibrant, more dynamic, more powerful because of the arrival of immigrants, and refugees, and asylum seekers.

The idea that we would stop asylum and we somehow have compared it to overflowing bathtubs.

When I think of the consequences for humanity if America stopped our beautiful asylum system that gave refuge to people...

First of all, I, every decision I make in my work is about real Americans.

Let's speak with one voice and say America has an asylum system and individuals have a right to petition for it.

This is a process that was created by Congress. There's a legal standard.

I think suggesting that the real answer is to export our responsibility to do that to another country or to make asylum seeking so difficult because you cannot work and you must stay in Mexico that people will not apply for it is not the…

The United States is a country of 350 million with the world's largest economy and a proud tradition of accepting refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants.

To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.

I think it runs counter to good economic policy, good social policy.

I am fearful that if we were to pass 1690 as it is drafted, it would not only really violate that long tradition of America being a place that welcomes people who are seeking asylum.

I rise in opposition to H.R. 1690 and associate myself with the remarks of Mr. Connolly.

It would put migrants in an uncertain dangerous situation as Mr. Cicilline said and would transfer our responsibilities to countries that have minimal resources.

The right to asylum is fundamentally under threat in the United States, which is a sad thing to say, given this Nation's history.

You are enriching the very dangerous cartels who we are talking about.