"Now, 2 weeks ago, during a bizarre debate performance, we saw, of course, the former President repeat manufactured conspiracies about immigrants."
"J.D. Vance and other Members of Congress have continued to amplify this xenophobic lie, and it is a shame."
"Now, Donald Trump's rhetoric has been dividing us and stoking anti-immigrant hate, I believe, since he first came down that escalator in 2015..."
"We need to modernize, and if we did, we would have a lot less people making this dangerous journey to access our asylum system at the border."
"Asylum exists for an important historical reason. It is a legacy of World War II."
"We have kept our asylum system so anemically underfunded that it is overwhelmed."
"We have to fix that. That is the reality."
"the Biden-Harris Administration policies are all about hurting American consumers, that they are driving inflation, that they have destroyed our economy."
"the United States has amongst the lowest inflationary rates of any industrialized country in the world right now."
"the exact opposite is true. We have seen over the course of the Biden-Harris Administration that they inherited an economic mess."
"during the Trump Administration, he advocated for the largest tax giveaway in American history to the wealthiest individuals and large corporations."
"Under the Trump Administration, unemployment skyrocketed to nearly 15 percent."