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Louie Gohmert: We are living through interesting times. I understood that was also a curse, ``May you live in interesting times.'' We…

On the recordOctober 22, 2021
We are living through interesting times. I understood that was also a curse, ``May you live in interesting times.'' We certainly are enduring that. An article from the New York Post, October 18, 2021, is titled ``Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night.'' Now, what we have come to see at the border in Texas is that this administration has learned that, gee, we have a record number of people pouring into this country illegally, but if we can ship them away from the border quickly enough, people don't see them amassed by the thousands. So if they don't see them, no harm, no foul. {time} 1300 I guess they are thinking if no one is in the forest to hear a tree fall, does it really fall? Well, the truth is, when you abandon the rule of law, then a Nation based on the rule of law will not last much beyond that. This is devastating to the country, and some would say, well, you know what, it is so compassionate to invite people. Well, when you hear from doctors that probably 25 percent of the women they see have been raped along the way, you see children separated from their parents in order to come to this country to give them a better chance of staying in the United States so the parents can someday follow, you see people that become indentured servants of the drug cartels selling drugs, sex trafficking, human trafficking, that is not very compassionate.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Oct 22, 2021

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