Political Quotes

“despite what you hear inside the beltway, the challenges along our southwest border are real, and the people of Texas feel that impact every day along the 1,200-mile common border we have with Mexico. Last week, for example, the Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley Sector arrested 1,300 illegal immigrants in a single day--the second time in 2 weeks they exceeded that number. In the same time period, the Laredo port of entry seized $2.3 million worth of cocaine and marijuana. Sadly, a father and son traveling from Guatemala nearly drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande but were saved thanks to the efforts of the Border Patrol. In a small town just north of Eagle Pass, a group of 90 undocumented immigrants--many of whom were women and children between the ages of 1 and 17--were apprehended after crossing the Rio Grande River. That was all in Texas last week. Last year alone, 400,000 people were detained coming across our southwestern border--400,000. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children and family units were detained as well. These stories have become so common, somehow we have become anesthetized to the human emergency and crisis occurring along the border. Frankly, I do not understand why our Democratic friends have become completely apathetic when it comes to border security or dealing with what President Obama himself called a humanitarian crisis.…”