Political Quotes

“Thank you, Madam President. The southern border. The situation at our southern border has devolved into chaos. That is what I am hearing from some of my former House colleagues who have been on that border today. According to them, we are once again facing a crisis. Thirteen days ago, Customs and Border Protection announced that they were deploying more agents to help manage the spike and apprehensions of adults and unaccompanied alien children. Then, last Monday, news broke that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had sent an email to DHS staff begging for volunteers to go to the border and help with logistics and humanitarian aid. It is obvious they need help on the border. In January alone, the Customs and Border Patrol detained nearly 78,000 people--more than double the number of apprehensions in January of 2020. In February, that number jumped to more than 100,000 arrests and detentions. CBP took more than 9,000 unaccompanied minors into custody that month, prompting the administration to open two overflow detention centers to house them. Listen to these numbers: 100,000 arrests and detentions in February; 9,000 unaccompanied minors being taken into custody that month--having to open 2 overflow detention centers. New data released last Wednesday shows that our agents are now detaining more than 4,000 people along the border every single day-- 4,000 every day.…”