Mike Lee

Tragically, as much as we would love to, America cannot be the safe harbor for every desperate, destitute and wandering soul in the world.

$3.8 trillion over the course of a lifetime.

This is not an accident. This is the result of deliberate, willful, non-enforcement of our immigration laws.

The cost of the border crisis is impacting every single American.

America is a generous country, welcoming to immigrants. It always has been, and I hope it always will be.

That's equivalent to a 75 cent tax on every gallon of gasoline sold in the United States.

All Americans want America to be a place of refuge, but Americans of all leanings recognize that the ongoing crisis on the southern border is threatening our ability to give relief to true asylum seekers.

Over 100,000 people have died from fentanyl overdoses during the last year alone.

$288,000 per person per year.

President Biden took an oath to enforce our nation's laws, and yet he's not doing that on the subject of immigration.

This is explicitly an open borders policy even though they don't want to admit it.

It's my hope, my wish, my prayer, that the Biden Administration will reverse course on this unacceptably abysmal record of border enforcement.

Now while the human costs are certainly the most significant, they're not the only costs associated with our porous border.

People are dying in cargo containers. Children, including babies, are being trafficked as commodities.

No one benefits from mismanaged borders, policies that incentivize illegal immigration, and poor implementation of legal immigration programs.

We need real reform and consistent enforcement of our existing immigration laws.

I think nearly every American could agree that parents have some legitimate interest in what their child reads, or is taught, or otherwise exposed to, about sex.

This is not a ban. This is about schools deciding what's appropriate for schoolchildren.

Shame on them if they don't, and shame on those who want to groom children sexually.

There is a goal here, and the goal is to sexualize children, to provide minors with sexually explicit material, and then hide this content from the parents.

I really do think very few, if any, Americans could reasonably disagree with the statement that parents have an interest in what their children are taught when it comes to sex.

If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

There are a number of women who have been concerned about this.

There are a number of women who have been concerned about this, including a number who are the survivors of domestic violence.

This sort of two-headed monster phenomenon is a recipe for disaster, and that's why I've long advocated for choosing one or the other.