Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this effort to distract us from the major problems that we are attempting to address in our country. This motion to recommit only--only--deals with amnesty for a far larger population of people than the American people expect to have addressed. The people who are the DACA recipients are people who arrived here as young children before June 15, 2007. This bill does nothing to solve the problem with the surge of people at the border of our country. It does nothing to create a new border security wall and fencing system, technology and personnel who are needed, and judges in courtrooms to process the huge number--the 600,000 backlog--of amnesty cases that we have. This does nothing to close the loopholes that are allowing people to enjoy what is called catch and release. When they come into the country, some of them even turn themselves in knowing that, ultimately, they are going to be released into the interior of the United States. We need to give the administration the tools they need to stop this problem. It is not a new problem. The Obama administration wanted a number of the changes that are in this bill with regard to clarifying things like the terrible Flores decision, which is at the heart of the problem we have with young children being separated from their parents. We fix those things in this legislation, and yet this would substitute all of that for something that is just targeted at what the other party wants to do.…”