Political Quotes

“Madam President, I suppose we were all shocked when Customs and Border Protection announced that more than 103,000 people illegally crossed our southern border in March. In April, we couldn't believe it when that number jumped to more than 109,000, and now we are in complete disbelief that in May more than 144,000 people illegally crossed our southern border. I found it interesting that in comments by one of the Presidential candidates running on the other side of the aisle, Bernie Sanders, who, according to Axios, is running second to Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary polls, called what is happening at the border now a ``serious problem'' but not a crisis. When asked what more urgent crises there may be, he said: Well, that is an issue we have to deal with, but the issue of climate change is a more serious crisis. He mentioned that, among other items. Senator Sanders finds himself in disagreement, I suppose, with President Barack Obama, who, in 2014, called what was happening at the border, when the numbers were far lower, a humanitarian and security crisis. President Obama's Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, disagrees with Senator Sanders.…”