Political Quotes

“I'm not aware that they have apologized. As a matter of fact, at least the President and the Vice President, to my knowledge, have never been to the border to see what is happening. Again, my friend led one of the trips I was on. I have been to the border four times in my first 15 months here in Congress so that I could see better and experience in person the crisis at the border, to see the human toll, to see the environmental toll, and then to see exactly where that was happening. These are Border Patrol officers who were trying to stand in the gap, to be on the front line, and trying to do their job despite the efforts of this administration to prevent them from doing their job, and putting their lives, literally, at risk. The previous time I was at the border--not the Del Rio trip--but the previous time I was in Arizona, there was actually a shooting of a Border Patrol officer while I was there. And yet here we have--as my friend has said--the Department of Homeland Security Secretary besmirching, smearing, and demeaning his own employees knowing full well that is a lie, knowing full they are just leading those horses as they do and trying to protect us American citizens from what is happening at the border.”