"Crackdown on Immigrants undermines public safety."
"I am confused, frankly, about why we are having this hearing."
"It would be laughable if it were not so serious; if it were not so hurtful to the characterization of immigrants."
"To blame one person who is an immigrant for the crimes of everybody else... is a good tactic for dividing and scapegoating."
"The latest falsehood is outrageous. Immigrants are certainly not making the opioid crisis worse."
"We know we cannot arrest our way out of the opioid crisis."
"We are not safer when victims of crime fear being deported if they call 911."
"Without that cooperation and trust of undocumented immigrants, we would not have been able to get some dangerous offenders off the street."
"Because if you had, you would see--because I am a member of that bipartisan task force and it has been working for several years on this very serious issue of the opioid crisis--nowhere in those recom..."
"I am calling this the 'Three Strikes, You Are Out' budget, and it is the American people and working people who are rounding the bases and they are being called out by this President and this administ..."
"There is a lot of disagreement around those tax cuts."
"the impact of the tax bill is going to be enormously substantial, given how much it increases the deficit."