Political Quotes

“I have been there four times in my first year, the first 14 months here in this Congress. February a year ago was the largest February in terms of illegal border crossings in the history of the country. We had 101,000 cross, some 3,000 a day, in February a year ago. We exceeded that by 64 percent this most recent February. We went from 101,000 to 165,000. Now, it is so bad with what this President has allowed to happen in the last year that 165,000 in a month doesn't sound like a really bad month for this President. That is because, again, it was 101,000 last February, but it increased as the year went on to where it was some 200,000 a month later on into the year, as we know, and 2 million in the first year this President was in office. As others have already pointed out, with him rescinding title 42, I guess he was afraid that is a policy, a law, that might help repel some illegals back across the border, might allow us to return some if we actually would enforce the law. So, we are rescinding title 42, which, as already has been said, will take it from 7,000 to 2\1/2\ times as large. Mr. Speaker, 18,000 a day is the average, 500,000 in the first 30 days. This President is on pace for some 10 to 15 million illegal entries into our country in his first and hopefully only term. I was in a Budget Committee hearing today with Congresswoman Boebert. We had Secretary Becerra there, the HHS Secretary.…”