Political Quotes

“Mr. President, earlier today, we heard a very convincing case laid out by the House managers of why the Senate should fill its constitutional duty and proceed to a trial on the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas. If we were to hold that trial--and we should do so--this chart that I have been developing since I became chairman of Homeland Security in 2015 would basically be the irrefutable DNA evidence of the crime. What I have tried to lay out in this chart is the cause and effect of an ongoing set of illegal immigration crises faced by the last three administrations. What I would like to do briefly here on the Senate floor is to go through that history dating back to 2012 and show the impact of certain actions, certain court decisions, certainly the lack of faithfully executing the law in this administration that has now resulted in an invasion of our country. Let's go back to 2012. That is where this chart begins. Even before that, I had developed a chart just showing on an annual basis the number of unaccompanied children coming into this country. It averaged for many years somewhere between 2-, 3-, 4,000 a year. Then, in June of 2012, President Obama issued his what I would consider lawless, unlawful deferred action on childhood arrivals.…”