Political Quotes

“Madam President, yesterday, President Biden traveled to Phoenix, AZ, to visit the site of a new semiconductor manufacturing plant. I am a proud proponent of domestic semiconductor manufacturing because it has become a matter of economic and national security, and it enjoys broad bipartisan support here in the Senate through the CHIPS and Science Act. It is exciting to see the sort of announcements that we were seeing in Arizona and these new chipmaking investments on American soil. But it is hardly the most pressing or most urgent matter on the minds of Arizonans or Texans or any other border State communities as well as folks across the country. It is only about 150 miles from Phoenix to the United States-Mexico border, which has been willfully neglected by the Biden administration. Under President Biden's administration, we have broken one record after another when it comes to illegal immigration at the southern border, and the system is now near its breaking point with the expiration of title 42, which is the public health title which has given the Border Patrol the authority to repel people coming across the border--some of them, at least--using that tool. But when that goes away, Border Patrol, absent any change in administration policy, will not be able to return those individuals--mainly adult males--back across the border for illegally entering the United States.…”