Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's question. I think it is an important question. To take down the American flag, deface the American flag with the words ``abolish ICE,'' to turn it upside down and re-raise it; to raise, then, the Mexican flag alongside of it over this ICE detention facility, I went there the day after this occurred. I met with the individuals running this facility, both ICE as well as the private individuals, GEO, that were running it. What did I find in the facility? It is a detention facility that houses 1,200 individuals. It was clean. There were doctors' offices. There was medicine. There were ping-pong tables. There were iPads to watch news in home countries. There were televisions. There were video game stations. There were three square meals. There were clean bunk beds. There were people from 57 countries. Only 29 percent of the people in there are from Mexico. Traditionally, this ICE facility has 80 percent of its occupants coming from individuals who are brought in there from interior enforcement, usually violent criminals or people who have violated our laws other than immigration laws, and 80 percent are usually of that population. Now, 80 percent of that is from people who are flooding across our border, overwhelming Border Patrol. ICE has no beds, no place to put these individuals who have violated our laws. As a result, you see the overcrowding in the Border Patrol facilities.…”