Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I have a chart showing monthly apprehensions of the southwest border since 2012. This little blip over here in 2014, this is the humanitarian crisis declared by President Obama when monthly apprehensions exceeded about 60,000 a month. President Trump had to deal with, in one month, about 4,000 people a day but still under 150,000 people per month. He solved the problem by returning people and having a consequence for illegal entry into this country. President Biden took office, opened up the border, and now we are exceeding over 200,000 people entering this country illegally every month. This is a crisis. This is a humanitarian crisis, but this administration won't even admit it is a problem. They say it is a challenge. My amendment is pretty simple. It takes whatever funds are appropriate for transporting illegal immigrants and only allows those funds to be used to send them home or to a safe third country or to Mexico or to a detention facility here in America. We need a consequence. We have to secure our border. This is out of control. I ask all my colleagues to support my amendment. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Connecticut.”