Ron Johnson

Yes, and it is shameful.

Because the Senate is right now under the majority rule of Democrats and the last thing they want to do is fix this problem.

They are trying to do everything they can to get her elected as well.

It is just so dispiriting to sign up to protect the public and then basically be prevented from doing the job by this administration.

They want to enforce the law. They want to protect U.S. citizens. They are really beside themselves.

Again, I think the Biden Administration has pretty well dismantled the ability of ICE to really detain and cooperate effectively with local law enforcement.

Well, politics have changed. We got a Presidential candidate.

That bill tanked itself. For whatever reason, Leader McConnell decided to seek negotiations utilizing James Lankford as the negotiator.

I wish we had an administration that was transparent and honest with the American public, but we do not have that.

What was happening over those couple years is people in Central America and elsewhere around the world realized that something had changed in America's immigration policy.

It is often said that every State is a border State and that is absolutely true.

I really want to thank the Judiciary Committee for agreeing to hold this field hearing here in Wisconsin where we can highlight the tragedies that are occurring as a result of the Biden-Harris open border policy right here in our State of…

They basically want to codify this open border.

So certainly a solution is not more deficit spending. That would exacerbate the problem.

Government often takes a top-down approach to these sorts of issues.

So certainly a solution is not more deficit spending. That would exacerbate the problem.

So certainly a solution is not more deficit spending. That would exacerbate the problem.

I would warn you trying to raise marginal tax rates to the extent you want to is going to really harm economic growth.

The top one percent taxpayers pays more than 40 percent of the total income tax burden.

This would literally turn at least a good chunk of Social Security into more of a general welfare program.

At what point do you raise marginal tax rates up to the point where you literally harm economic growth?

I think you are not going to get even close to the revenue you think you are going to get, because you are going to create a huge disincentive for work.

Back then it is kind of hard to get the exact number of workers versus beneficiaries.

It was never intended as a welfare program; correct?

I would warn you trying to raise marginal tax rates to the extent you want to is going to really harm economic growth.