Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 6136, the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act, and I thank Chairman Goodlatte for allowing me to spend time talking about this from a personal perspective. I represent the 17th District of Texas, which has a number of colleges, universities, and institutions of higher education that are home to hundreds of Dreamers who are studying to improve their lives. I believe that we should give them a path to come out of the shadows by providing them with an earned path to legal status. These Dreamers were brought here by their parents as children and, for most, America is the only home they know. Further, they did not commit the crime to enter the country illegally, and to characterize an earned path to legal status as amnesty is an offense to their character and to the hard work this body has done to try to come to a consensus. This bill is also important because it will ensure that children who are apprehended at the border will not be separated from their parents and/or legal guardian while in DHS custody. Look, we all know that enforcing the law is important, both for the integrity of our immigration system and out of respect to the thousands of law-abiding immigrants who come to this country legally every year, many of whom reside in my district. The President was right to issue an executive order to stop the separation of children from their parents.…”