Political Quotes

“I would say to the gentleman that one of the things that really struck me that I probably didn't know or hadn't heard stories of--a lot of this was just confirming what I believed might be going on and bringing it visually home. But one of the things that I was astounded with was the residents in the area who were talking about it--we had a number of residents we met with--that the drug runners are bringing the drugs in, sometimes they are just dropping them off at a GPS site, sometimes they are handing them off and getting cash and bringing the cash back, but they also were looters. So all those properties along the border have to worry about home invasions and burglaries and thieving; because there is nothing to stop them, whatever they can carry, they are carrying out and carrying south as well. You know, if it was folks, that would be one issue--and I understand that issue is a big part of it--but if it was just folks coming north to look for a better way of life, that would be one thing. But a huge number of these people are coming north with methamphetamine that comes into my district, and probably into Mr. Gohmert's as well, with fentanyl, with heroin, and with marijuana, and they are coming in with that. They are taking the cash and anything they can steal back with them. And so it is a two-way street, so to speak. We have got illegal commerce going both ways through a rope as our defense for our country, a mere rope, an inch of cotton thread.”