Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the pending legislation before us. I believe it is very important that we show that we do want to address this issue, and I think the Goodlatte-McCaul bill does that in a humane way. Now, we have this issue of separation of children that has arisen at the border just in the last week or so. The Trump policy is not any different on paper than the Obama policy was. What is different is the way it has been covered, and President Trump has realized that something needs to be done differently and has signed an executive order yesterday to that effect. I personally think that we ought to go back to the original policy where, if you wanted political asylum, you applied at the embassy or the consulate in your home country. And if you bring your children, and you march them across the deserts of Mexico, and you bring them all the way to the Texas border, you do get a court hearing, but I would say that we give that court hearing back in their country of origin. And if we have to send them back at taxpayer expense, we deduct the cost from existing aid packages that we are giving to those home countries. That way, they don't have to come all the way to the Texas border or the California border or the Arizona border or the New Mexico border in order to get their day in court. They wait in their home country, and then they get their day in court there. Nobody wants to separate families, but it is the parents who bring the children with them.…”