Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-03-30-pt1-PgH2578-6_t13

This great America, making it great again, part of it is to make America safe again. I would add to this, Mr. Speaker, that I am appalled at the audacity of the judges who are either out on the left coast or well beyond the left coast, as far west as Hawaii, who would just step in without any kind of a constitutional, foundational background in their arguments or decisions, without citing the statute is this, that Congress has the authority to control immigration in the United States of America. If we want to pass a piece of legislation and it is in law that says the only people that we will let come into America are green Martians, then that is the law, and that is what a judge is obligated to determine when they read the law. But on top of that, not only does Congress set the terms on what legal immigration is into America--and it is clear and it is defined-- but we grant the President of the United States the authority to determine those who will not be allowed to come into America, just like any other sovereign nation-state in the world that controls its borders. And if we don't have the authority, if Congress doesn't have the constitutional authority that is clearly defined, and if the statutes that are produced by Congress and signed into law by previous Presidents do not set that statutory authority on who comes into America but a judge someplace in Seattle or Hawaii can supercede the will of the American people, can supercede the supreme law of the land, the Constitution of the United States, can supercede Federal law just because, in their whim, they think a law might mean something that it doesn't say, that is what we are dealing with, Mr. Speaker.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
STEVE KING
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
IA
Gender
—
Date
2017-03-30
Speech ID
CREC-2017-03-30-pt1-PgH2578-6_t13
Paragraph
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