"I have seen a really alarming trend that has become increasingly more alarming every year that I have been in Congress."
"I'd like to invite all my colleagues on this Subcommittee to look at a bipartisan immigration bill, the Dignity Act."
"the horrific Trump Administration policy of separating children from their parents at the border, a policy that has caused immeasurable trauma on children."
"This is Speaker McCarthy's gift to the extremists in his conference."
"If we truly want to address our Nation's immigration challenge and opportunity, we would do that through reasonable legislation."
"Nobody wants an orderly immigration process more than those of us who have built our lives on the border."
"To a person, my Republican colleagues voted against all of that."
"In other words, taking food away from the mouths of children."
"This is just yet another example of the messaging and the efforts to try to control women."
"I have long worked to ensure that we are creating not just an economic development engine that capitalizes on our advanced manufacturing, our 3Di printing, and our aerospace engineering programs at UT..."
"When you starve a system, and you do everything possible to create legal pathways, you're not serious about solving these issues."