Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week, President Biden visited the southern border--just his second such trip in his entire half-a- century-long political career. While I suspect his visit was motivated more by the thought of an election year photo op than by a desire to see the border crisis firsthand, the President should--should--be visiting the southern border. But more than that, the President should be taking action on the border, real action--the kind of action that will actually do something to help stem the crisis we are facing, because we are facing a crisis. The number of migrant encounters at our southern border in January was the highest January number in more than 20 years. That, of course, followed a recordbreaking and staggering, I would add, 301,983 encounters in the month of December--not only the highest December on record but the highest total for any month ever. And there is no end in sight. The first 4 days of March saw 7,000-plus migrant encounters each day, putting us on track for yet another month of 200,000-plus migrant encounters at the southern border. Of course, none of these numbers include ``got-aways,'' and those are individuals whom the Border Patrol saw but was unable to apprehend. There have been approximately 1.8 million known ``got-aways'' since President Biden took office and an untold number of unknown ``got- aways'' over the same period. Now, this is a crisis on many levels.…”