"As a general rule, I don't favor banning age-appropriate and subject-appropriate books for children. They need to hear a diversity of views."
"we haven't had a markup of an immigration bill in this Committee... since the current Chairman has been Chairman"
"I guess I was wrong."
"This claim is laughable."
"Do you consider the status quo compassionate or humane?"
"I just think it's unfair to these children to leverage their fate on some unrelated immigration legislation."
"And the cartels know if you flood the border with children, with asylum seekers, and others, that Border Patrol will be overwhelmed."
"We need to do better than this. We must do better than this. We must show that we care about the fate of these children by doing our jobs."
"Worse, The New York Times illustrated that senior Biden administration officials, like Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, knew--knew about the continued--about this and continued t..."
"I wonder, you know, why would we expect any different outcome when the people who are mainly in charge of immigration policy in this country are the transnational criminal organizations that get rich ..."
"But the transnational criminal organizations, the coyotes, the criminals who profit from this, they know that as long as they can continue to move people across the border into the United States that ..."