Veronica Escobar: “Our small businesses are the backbone of our local economies, and leaving them out in the cold is simply unacceptable.”

Congress has not passed comprehensive immigration reform in our country in nearly four decades.

Obviously, what Greg Abbott is doing is an absolute failure. There is nothing about what Greg Abbott is doing that is about trying to improve the situation, trying to solve a great challenge.

I first want to also express my profound condolences to each and every one of you who've suffered loss.

This hearing is a very brazen effort to provide political cover to my Governor, Government Greg Abbott, who has unconstitutionally used State resources to try to impose the State's own immigration policies and laws.