Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the urgent immigration crisis facing our nation and to ask my colleagues to join me in support of H.R. 5281, the Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors Act. We have all heard the numbers: an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants forced to live under a broken U.S. immigration system; more than 400,000 people each year entering this country illegally, side stepping those who follow the rules and try to come here the right way. But these numbers do not fully reflect the human suffering, economic disadvantage or threat to our national security that this failed system has created. Immigrants coming to this country illegally often face a terrible choice: endure crippling poverty and danger to themselves and their families in their home country, or abandon their homes to try and find work and build a new life here. For most Americans, their parents, grandparents, or ancestors brought their families to the U.S. in search of a better life. Those who bring their young children here today put themselves and their families at risk for the same reasons that immigrants did so generations ago. Children who are brought here illegally now are often forced into a life in the shadows of a country they will most likely know as their only home. The DREAM Act establishes a rigorous, decade-long process that would create a path to citizenship for those children by serving in the Armed Forces or pursuing a college education.…”