Political Quotes

“to conclude, we are about to set up what I think is a very unsafe situation: The Government fails to carry out its constitutional responsibility, and for the people who are illegally in communities across America, we are saying the Federal Government is going to deny any benefits to those people, which means those communities already the most heavily impacted now, out of their resources, have to pick up those responsibilities. As a humanitarian society, we are still going to face providing health care, delivering babies to pregnant women, and the negative aspects of operating a criminal justice system and the other requirements when that illegal population acts in ways that are antithetical to the society in which they are living. Reserving the right to review the amendment in its final form, I raise for my colleagues the potential consequences of this amendment.”