Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this past November, the American people gave President Trump and Republicans a mandate. Now the time has come to begin executing on it. One of the most important issues in this last election was the illegal immigration crisis. And that is the topic of the first vote that we are holding in the Senate under Republican majority. For the last 4 years, the Biden administration's open border policies have wreaked havoc in both border communities and those far from the border. One of those communities is Athens, GA, where 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant while out for a morning jog last year. Laken's murderer not only entered the country illegally, he was arrested twice--twice--in the United States and never deported. This week, the Senate is going to vote on Senator Britt's bipartisan Laken Riley Act, which would ensure that illegal immigrants are deported when they are arrested, as Laken's killer was, for crimes like theft and burglary. While this bill sounds like a commonsense measure--and it is--Senate Democrats uniformly opposed it last year despite the bill receiving bipartisan support in the House of Representatives. We will see what they do when the new Senate majority brings it up for a vote. We are also going to be taking a vote to support our ally Israel, something my friends across the aisle seem to struggle with from time to time.…”