Veronica Escobar: “Mr. Secretary, did migrants stop their journey northward while Donald Trump was President?”

I thank my friend, Hillary Scholten. I so appreciate her leadership and her support of the bill. Mr. Speaker, I was born and raised on the U.S.-Mexico border. I am a third-generation border resident. My children are both adults. My son…

Instead, what we are doing here today is advancing a crackpot legal argument that is itself based on a racist conspiracy theory.

I want to shout out and thank you both.

It is really tragic because our Nation deserves bipartisan solutions that make sense and that help our country.