Political Quotes

“one cold May morning earlier this year, a Border Patrol agent found the body of a 3-year-old boy in a blue windbreaker, his arms crossed. He had died trying to cross our southern border, the youngest victim our borders have claimed this year. The boy's mother's name is Edith Rodriguez. She is 25 years old. She attempted to cross the border illegally, in hopes that she might escape the desperate poverty of her home state of Veracruz, Mexico. Edith hired a human smuggler--a coyote. The coyote gave his charges an illegal drug, ephedrine, to help them keep awake and moving. But Edith and her son still could not keep up with the group. So the coyote, in a cruel and heartless act, abandoned them in the desert. Alone. With no food and little water, with a dangerous drug coursing through his system, exposed to the elements-- Edith Rodriguez's little boy died. Edith Rodriguez violated the laws of the United States when she crossed the border illegally. She was wrong to violate our border. But all should agree that her son did not deserve to die. Here are the facts: Every 18\1/2\ hours, someone dies trying to cross the border between the United States and Mexico. About a year ago, I asked the Government Accountability Office to study the deaths that take place along America's borders. Today, my office released that study. The results are sobering, shocking, and, I strongly believe, a cause for action. Since 1995, deaths along our borders have doubled.…”