Adding fentanyl substances to the Annex on Chemicals is a blunt instrument that would severely harm the United States healthcare system.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2, which should be known as the child deportation act. Last year, my family marked 100 years since my grandmother, Victoria Castro, came to the United States as a young orphan in the wake of the…

Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2 does not include any serious attempt to address the root causes of immigration, and it will not make any real progress to fix our Nation's broken immigration system. Mr. Speaker, for that reason and many…

We have to come up with immigration reform that is humanitarian, that is diplomatic, and that is equal.

We refuse to understand that Latin America's problems are our problems--their prosperity is our prosperity.

That is just immoral and it is pernicious.

It would also include, this bill, my amendment, Ukrainians displaced by Russia's unprovoked invasion into Ukraine, making sure that they can stay here in the United States as their asylum claims are processed.

I believe it is getting dangerous. I believe in some instances it is getting hysterical.

The bill as it is currently written would force people with disabilities who are able to make it to the United States, would send them back to places like Mexico or Guatemala where there is no infrastructure for actually medically treating…

I strongly oppose this bill. I believe that the United States must play a vital role in the western hemisphere's shared challenge of forced migration.

This amendment would protect people like the Rohingya in Burma, the Catholics in Nicaragua, the Uyghurs in China whom many of us have spoken about concern for on multiple committees in this Congress, and other religious minorities.