Obama. lead this Nation. He has asked for help to lead this Nation. and it is help long overdue. Do my colleagues know how long it has been since we filled this critical spot to protect our border from unlawful immigration? Over 2 years. July of 2012 was the last time this spot was filled. There have been objections to those people who have been suggested by the President over and over again. by the same political party that insists border enforcement is their highest priority. Yet they will not fund the agency responsible for it in a systematic. orderly way. and they refuse to fill the vacancy of the person responsible for administering this border enforcement. I am at a loss to explain this. It appears to me their feelings about this President have reached a point where they are not thinking clearly. They cannot announce on one hand that first we must have border enforcement and then fail to fund the agency. They cannot announce that first we need to make sure we stop the flow of undocumented immigrants and then refuse to fill the position responsible for administering that responsibility. Yet that is exactly what they want to do today. I hope good sense will prevail.
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