Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have really heard quite a bit over the past few weeks and especially this past weekend about this administration and their decision to do away with title 42, and I would take this opportunity to remind my Democratic colleagues that President Biden himself admitted that our southern border will be, and I quote him, ``chaotic for a while'' post-title 42. So the expectation is that this will create chaos, and they know it, but they are doing it anyway. In the days right before title 42 was terminated, we were already seeing unprecedented chaos along our southern border. Again, they knew it. Chaos was coming, but they were going to do it anyway because it serves their purposes. Now, here is some of the chaos that has actually happened at that border. These are last week's numbers. They are not my numbers. They are not Republican numbers. They are Border Patrol's numbers. This is what this administration is doing to the communities that are along that southern border. Border Patrol reported last week 68,000 apprehensions, and they seized hundreds of pounds of narcotics, including 56 pounds of fentanyl. Bear in mind, 1 little gram, one little touch is enough to kill. We are all hearing ``One pill will kill.'' Yet think about 56 pounds of that coming in. What would that do to your community? At the same time, on top of the 68,000 who were apprehended, there were 16,000 ``got-aways'' whom they could see on surveillance video, but they could not get to them.…”