Madam Chair. I find it interesting and somewhat perplexing how my good friend across the aisle talks about an antiimmigrant agenda appealing to fear and prejudice. It seems that whenever we start talking about border security and lawful immigration. the race card is played. And I would submit that that is because. in part. there is an absence of rational sound public policy for the position taken. Lets emphasize something. America has. far and away. the most generous lawful immigration policy in the world. No nation is as compassionate with respect to lawful immigrants as the United States of America is. and I challenge anyone to say different. I wish that this kind of amendment was not necessary. but when you have got an executive branch that has shown itself to be willingly lawless. to the point that two Federal judges. one in Pennsylvania and one in Texas. have had to render a decision trying to force this administration to obey the law. then I would submit. Madam Chair. that it is important to have these kinds of amendments to also deny the funding that otherwise would be used for that lawless conduct.
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