Political Quotes

“Mr. President, to my colleague from Illinois, Senator Durbin, we do a lot of things together. I enjoy working with you. But, here, we have a fundamental disagreement. No. 1, you are entitled to your opinion but not your facts. There were 77,800 people paroled in the U.S. since February who came from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. That doesn't count the people from Ukraine. They all showed up at the border. They were paroled in. There is no way that two statutory requirements were applied to 77,800 people. Why did they just wave them through? All I can tell you is that parole has been abused. The average was 6,000 per year for Trump and Biden during their Presidency. From April to now, it is 77,800--nothing to do with Ukraine. As to the people from Ukraine, I want to help them, but we have a refugee law where you can apply for refugee status if you are in a war zone or things are bad where you live. They are taking the parole statute and just granting to anybody and everybody they choose to grant. The bottom line is we are either a rule-of-law nation or we are not. This has nothing to do with ICE funding. We were not talking about funding ICE here. This is a decision by the executive branch to abuse the law on the books. The tools available apparently are not being used by anybody. Why does Senator Britt offer legislation? Because we have a real- world example where the system failed. Let's make it stronger. Why did this bill pass overwhelmingly in the House?…”