I want to publicly call for the release and return of Eyvin Hernandez, who has been wrongly retained in Venezuela since March 2022.

I want to urge the Administration to re-designate temporary protected status for countries affected by ongoing U.S. court cases, including Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

In Guatemala, you know, elections are coming up on June 25. And Guatemalan judges are largely perceived to be under the influence of President Giammattei have banned four of the top opposition Presidential candidates from participating.

Absent broader congressional action, re-designating TPS for these nations could be the single most consequential thing the Biden Administration does on immigration and would meaningfully help thousands of families.

Thank you, Chairwoman. As we discussed, the vast majority--I discussed earlier the vast majority of migrants displaced in the Western Hemisphere are in countries like Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama, and Mexico.

What specific efforts are you undertaking or proposing to help countries integrate these migrants?

The United States must continue to be an economic partner, a first choice for nations around the world.

I introduced the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Candidate Reform Act, which would modernize MCC's statutory criteria.

At the same time, I believe that this piece of legislation offers false hope to families, rather than pursues real meaningful, effective policy.

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

One of the things that I mentioned previously is the American side of this whole issue and this tragedy is completely missing.

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…

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

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

This amendment is simple. It would subject any such agreements to Senate ratification before they go into effect.

Americans are at risk because they're being denied the right to vote.

I have an amendment at the desk.

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.

I believe that a lot of it is animated by racism and bigotry.

That is just immoral and it is pernicious.

I believe they attempt to solve a problem without actually fixing it.

This amendment would exclude three categories of individuals from the bill's provisions: First, the disabled; second, religious minorities fleeing religious persecution from certain countries; and, finally, Ukrainians fleeing the Russian…

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…

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 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.