Political Quotes

On the recordApril 7, 2022
We did. Where just a couple months ago you had ``Bidentown'' with some 20,000 illegal Haitian immigrants gathered under the bridge. We learned a lot while we were there, and I thank the gentleman for leading that trip. I also want to say thank you to my friend, the Congressman from Wisconsin, for allowing us to do this, and Congressman Roy for allowing me to join him. But we had the 20,000 illegal Haitian immigrants gathered in ``Bidentown'' under the bridge which they quickly--they weren't concerned that the immigrants were coming in the country illegally. They were concerned about the image and the embarrassment of 20,000 of them in ``Biden's village'' there under the bridge, so they wanted to distribute them into the interior of the country as quickly as they could to hide it from the American people. The gentleman will remember at first they tried to keep the media from covering it. And then what they did was bus them into the country to wherever they wanted to go. They flew a few back to Haiti, but most of them they distributed into the country. But we learned when we were in Del Rio--and my friend may have already known this--I learned it that day when we were there that there were 1,000 a day coming just through that corridor. Sadly, that is just a fraction of the 7,000 a day who are coming across the southern border along Arizona, New Mexico, Arizona, and, of course, Texas. But to this President's policies now, what is the response?…
Said by
Bob Good
Republican · Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Apr 7, 2022

Share

More from Bob Good

Jul 8, 2024

It reinforces my belief that unions have long outlived their usefulness.

congress.gov
Jun 11, 2024

Big Labor bias is a losing strategy for the country.

congress.gov
Sep 18, 2024

As the chair said, if ESG funds performed better, investors would choose those based on their performance, not because they are ESG compliant. Mr. Speaker, I support passage of 5339. This legislation will protect Americans' retirement…

govinfo.gov
May 21, 2024

Forcing President Biden's favorability is cratering with union households.

congress.gov

Other voices in this conversation