Political Quotes

“I will be making a unanimous consent request here in a second, and Senator Britt will be joining me in that endeavor. We are going to have a vote at 2 o'clock about a bipartisan bill. I applaud the effort to change our immigration laws and get control of an out-of-control situation. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what law is on the books, if the administration is not going to enforce the ones that already exist. We had a vote in February on this bill. One of the problems I had the entire time is that parole is being abused by this administration. Since February until now, April, 77,800 people have been paroled in the United States, and I believe that is an abuse of the statute that is on the books. There were 1.3 million in fiscal year 2023. Over 1.2 million were paroled by the CBP alone. Now let's talk about the parole statute, if we have that. If we don't, well, let me tell you what the law says. It basically says you can be paroled for two reasons: a unique humanitarian need or a special benefit to the country. The statute that they are using to parole all of these people has limitations as to how it can be used. On average, the statute in question during the Obama- Trump years was used--about 6,000 people, on average, were paroled in the United States using the statute that the Biden administration has been abusing.…”