Ted Poe: “We have waived 12 and allowed them to come into the United States, why haven't we waived that for people?”

Thank you for chairing this committee for so many years. It has been a wonderful privilege to be here with you.

What can we do, Congress, administration?

Born in the 1920s, he grew up in the Depression of the 1930s poor, just like many American children in the rural areas. Fresh vegetables were grown in the family garden behind the small frame house, and his mother made sandwiches for…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are in the midst of a situation in the United States, and throughout the world, where slavery has crept back into our environment and into our communities, and it is the slave trade of women and children for…