Political Quotes

“On this past Saturday, Houstonians gathered together at the Living Water International Apostolic Ministries in Houston with Pastor Stearns and about 10 other churches. I convened the press conference in the warehouse of this church filled with goods and necessities to respond to the most objectionable national order that I have ever heard from any President of the United States: to manipulate law enforcement and calling for national predawn raids across America. Now, no one in America wants open borders, and Democrats do not, but we do believe in due process, the Constitution, and the justness of the phraseology on the Statue of Liberty to bring our forlorn and worn to this country. We are the greatest experiment, and people in my constituency were frightened. I came home to say we must do something about it. And how powerful it was for the churches in our community to say: We will open our doors to those who are frightened about the fact that they will be separated from their children or their children separated from them. What a horrible image, internationally; how the United Nations has condemned it. And so on that day, we opened the churches of Houston for those migrants who were frightened by these predawn raids. One even occurred today. I finish my remarks by saying the 16th President of the United States really said what America is all about: ``We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.…”