Political Quotes

“I do have an amendment at the desk, and I do want to make clear that this is on behalf of August Pfluger, my colleague from Texas, who has been a champion of this issue since he has been in Congress. The issue that is before us as we take up the Department of Homeland Security appropriations is the policy that the administration has put forward and, indeed, some Members of this Chamber, even some on this side of the aisle, have put forward. The policy would limit the ability to transport people who have come here illegally and that have been released into the United States by the administration into Texas. It would limit the ability to transport these individuals to other places in the country. We have referred to this as the remain in Texas policy, which we Texans take significant issue with. The impact on the State of Texas cannot be overstated. Texas, more than any other State in the Union, has been bearing the brunt of the wide-open border policies that have endangered the American people now for 3\1/2\ years, something that we hope to end soon. We, in Congress, have a duty under Article I to do something about it. That is why we put forward, I believe, a good DHS appropriations bill. We made clear that we need to secure the border in the process, but what we are not going to do is allow funds to be used to limit the ability of Texans to alleviate the damage being done to our State.…”