Political Quotes

“Mr. President, earlier this week, a Federal judge in Washington, DC, outlawed the continued use of title 42 pandemic-related authority for the expedited removal of aliens who enter our country illegally. The judge found that the policy should be updated because the COVID-19 pandemic has changed since 2020. I agree. The pandemic is over. But the border crisis is not over. In fact, it is worse than ever. That is why I have introduced legislation that provides a far stronger reason for invoking title 42 authority--the deadly drug smuggling crisis at our southern border that is killing a record number of Americans. The Biden administration has dismantled our Nation's most effective border security policies. When I led a group of Tennessee sheriffs and mayors to the border this past April, Border Patrol agents in Laredo told me that the Migrant Protection Protocols, which are also known as MPP, or ``Remain in Mexico,'' were a painful illustration of the Biden administration's destruction of these border security tools. MPP required that migrants seeking asylum in the United States remain in Mexico until it has been determined whether they were actually entitled to asylum. The vast majority of those claiming asylum are not entitled to it. When MPP was implemented in 2019, the agents said it was like flipping a switch because people stopped coming when they learned they couldn't get in.…”