We need to be doing everything we can to improve access to the ballots and make it convenient and to make it easy.
I think we need to look at higher ground here.
you and I are both at this hearing. We are both elected officials in the State of Texas. We are both Hispanic.
the Department of Justice has taken the position that Section 5 and indeed Section 2, as well, protects the ability to elect Democrats
We have to avoid practices and policies that operate as magnets for further illegal migration.
I myself am the son of an immigrant from Cuba, and I am a passionate advocate for legal immigration.
There is no job more important in the administration than protecting our homeland, so I appreciate your service in this very important role.
I think granting yet another amnesty would result in those numbers going even higher, would result in even more little girls and little boys...
Mr. Secretary, my time is expiring, but with all respect, in my view that argument is a red herring.
This is a humanitarian crisis that we have a legal system in place that is failing to secure the border and that is incentivizing people cro...
We have a particular humanitarian crisis with respect to unaccompanied minors. That is a crisis that is the direct consequence of policies o...