This is the Homeland Security Appropriations. I have had the privilege of serving on the authorizing committee since its creation. and every day we go to that committee. we know that the commitment is to secure the American people. This is not a forum to battle ones agreements or disagreements with the Constitution and with the Presidents executive authority or to battle your disagreements with the idea of deporting felons over familiesthat debate can be hadbut. tonight. we are wrongly jeopardizing the national security of the American people. We do it on the basis. our Republican friends. of failing to even read the Constitution. for it is clear. as it is stated in the Constitution under article II. section 3. that the President can have the authority. "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." In essence. he has the right to make sure that we are treating persons fairly and that prosecutorial discretion is exercised in a fair manner. Nothing that is in the executive actions of the President violates any law. but what it does do. as we are debating today with the poison pill amendments. is to take the inhumanity of some viewpoints and to throw it against people who have come to this country by no fault of their own. who have come to this country to do us not harm but good. who have come to this country to work hard and to help build this great Nation.
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