Political Quotes

“Mr. President, April border numbers came out last week, bringing us up to more than 1\1/2\ million migrant encounters at the southern border so far in fiscal year 2024--1\1/2\ million in just 7 months. Between official U.S. Customs and Border Protection encounters and known ``got-aways''--which are individuals the Border Patrol saw but were unable to apprehend--we are closing in on a staggering 10 million migrant encounters at our southern border under President Biden. That is substantially more than the population of New York City. In fact, it is more than the population of all but the largest U.S. States, if you can believe that. And there are still 8 more months in the President's term. After 3 years of half measures, deflections, and outright ignoring the raging crisis at our Nation's border, the President and Democrats appear to have finally woken up to the fact that their border crisis might be a major political liability for them in the upcoming election. Fear for their election prospects is doing what 3 years of chaos at the southern border could not, and that is get them focused on illegal immigration--sort of, because the vote on border legislation the Democrat leaders announced for this week isn't really about addressing illegal immigration; it is about giving the American people the impression that Democrats care about illegal immigration.…”