Political Quotes

“It is 1:35 in the morning here on the East Coast. I represent a district in Texas. Somewhere in Texas right now are a host of families and children who have no place to be put, nowhere to be put because we are not doing our job. Those are facts. All the theater, all the grandstanding that is going to be pointed out here on the floor of the House of Representatives, those are the facts. There is a child today who doesn't have a place to be put. We can't just take that child and put him or her someplace magical. We have to have a place to put him or her. Today, right now, the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel is making hundreds of millions of dollars moving people--not just fentanyl, not just cocaine, not just heroin, although lots of that, too, but moving people. Right now, somewhere in the United States of America, particularly probably in Houston or San Antonio, there is a stash house with children in it and people in it being held hostage to pay money back to the cartels. If you don't believe it, go talk to the people in the Department of Public Safety in Texas and CBP and ICE in Texas. Talk to them. That is what is actually happening. And how can we, with a straight face, say that we are the most powerful nation in the world and allow that to be happening at our border, while our asylum laws are being exploited by cartels for profit, asylum laws which we should have, but where people should go to ports of entry and have a path to come here?…”