Louie Gohmert: “All three of you, Mr. Norman, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Griffin, you guys are caring guys, and the Republicans are often…”

“All three of you, Mr. Norman, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Griffin, you guys are caring guys, and the Republicans are often castigated as being hard-hearted and not caring. But the stories we have heard from Angel Families and Angel Moms, I know it has affected you guys. We have talked about it. How anybody can work so hard to get elected to come to this body and not be deeply moved by these stories of families that are ripped apart because someone came in illegally and killed a family member--and I know it is a serious issue. We don't normally abide separating children from families, even though it is temporary, but there is a point to make sure that children are not handed over to sex traffickers. But it broke my heart as a felony judge, and it happens in this country over and over every single day of the year, that someone commits a crime and they are taken away; their children are separated from the parent--the parent goes to jail--because we don't believe in incarcerating the children for the father's sins or illegal activity or the mom's. It happens every day. So it rings kind of hollow to me when people start screaming about that and yet have no compassion whatsoever. We heard from a lot of Angel Moms, so many of those who are so derogatory about Republicans wanting to secure our borders, but they will not even give these moms who have lost precious children a minute of their time to hear these tragic stories.…”