Louie Gohmert: “We heard earlier some comments from the other side about, gee, what could have been done, and the desire for a…”

“We heard earlier some comments from the other side about, gee, what could have been done, and the desire for a bipartisan agreement on things. And yet, I know since President Trump came into office, he offered a deal to work out legalization for folks that had been granted DACA, and that offer was slapped down. So it is interesting to hear now, after the opportunity did present itself in the last Congress, with Republicans in control in the House and Senate, and the President, wanting to work something out in a bipartisan manner, now, we hear, oh, we wanted it bipartisan all along. Well, a problem with a self-governing nation is that when people abandon the rule of law in that self-governing nation, it is not going to remain self-governing that much longer. What has made America strong was that--one of the things--that nobody was above the law. That included Presidents, it included most everybody. There were exceptions. But as I have continued to say for a number of years, we should seal--not seal, but we should control the border, get it secured, continue to give over a million visas a year. Fine. Most generous country in the world when it comes to allowing access, ingress and egress. Continue that, but control the border. And once the border is controlled, we can work out about what to do about the people that came in illegally. We can work that out. Some try to slam Republicans and say, oh, you must hate Hispanics. They don't know our hearts.…”