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On the recordJuly 7, 2014
the crisis at our border continues unabated. It is a crisis that should never ever have occurred. It occurred as a direct result of the failure of the leadership of the United States, the clarity of our message, and our willingness to enforce simple, plain immigration laws. Last week, we reached the point where the President of the United States--who is directly responsible for sending messages and effecting policies that encourage the flow of immigration to the United States, announced he would be asking Congress--us--to cooperate with him and provide him with $2 billion in additional funds to deal with the humanitarian crisis--a crisis, as I indicated, that was produced as a result of his activities. In the same breath at that moment when he asked for more money to take care of the crisis, he announced he will deliberately and openly go around the Congress of the United States and the Constitution and unilaterally change immigration law again through an executive policy. The President said: . . . today, I'm beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress. As a first step, I'm directing the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General [directing them] to move available and appropriate resources from our interior to the border.…
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Pete Sessions
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