Louie Gohmert: “I hope the gentleman can stick around and we can talk some more. But we have been joined by our friend from northern…”

“I hope the gentleman can stick around and we can talk some more. But we have been joined by our friend from northern California, Congressman Doug LaMalfa. I know his friends and families have endured quite a tragedy this past year with the fire, but I yield to the gentleman for such comments as he might have about our border. Mr. LaMALFA. Thank you, Mr. Gohmert, for leading this tonight and for allowing me and some of my colleagues some time on this. Yes, coming from California, you know, we feel the brunt, as any border State does, especially. But we know it is pervasive through all 50 States of this Nation. What are the ideals of this country, its founding? We welcome legal immigration. What is so hard about that concept? Instead, we get into these euphemisms of just immigration or immigrants or migrants. And that is the disservice that is being done by people out there who are listening and watching what we are arguing about here, that we are somehow all against immigration or against migrants or evacuees or refugees, and that couldn't be further of from the truth. You don't have a sovereign nation if you don't have defined borders that we as a nation set the policy, set what is going to happen with who is going to enter, and so it is chaos. So, Mr. Gohmert, we could do DACA after DACA, amnesty after amnesty. Ronald Reagan, in good faith, back in 1986, sat down and hammered something out, and the other side did not adhere to it.”