Political Quotes

“Madam President, I just want to pick up where Senator Cornyn left off. He has been a great person to try to work with to find a solution to our immigration problems. But what we are dealing with on the Senate floor is not an immigration issue. To my Democratic colleagues: I have worked with many of you on solutions to immigration, comprehensive immigration reform. We are now having to deal with a broken border from a national security lens--172 encounters that we know of, of people on the Terrorist Watchlist. In fiscal year 2021, it was 15. So it is going through the roof. So we have to get control of our border for our own national security sake. Terrorism is on the rise. The world is on fire. Now is not the time to have a broken border. The numbers are really astounding. In September, we had the highest encounters at the border in recorded history. In December of 2020, we had the lowest in decades. In fiscal year 2023, which ended September 30, 2.5 million people. Since President Biden has been in office, 6 million people. That is larger than the State of South Carolina. So one of two things is going on regarding the border. The Biden administration wants it to be this way for some reason or they are incompetent. If they are incompetent, they need to listen to people who have actually tried to secure the border successfully and work with us to get it done. If they want it to be this way, it is going to end if you want money for other countries.…”