Speech #CREC-2017-07-13-pt1-PgH5823_t7

Well, two of those three things are wrong at least. But did they mean it when they took the oath to support and defend the Constitution? Can you trust them if they violated our immigration laws and then lied about that in order to get into the military? This President set about rewarding those kind of lawbreakers, those criminals, by granting them a path to citizenship because they signed up in the military. I simply offered an amendment at the Rules Committee to be able to debate this on the floor of the House of Representatives so Congress could bring its considered judgment. Now, I have an oath that I have taken, and that is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, too, Mr. Speaker. When I see a bill come before me that, on its face, rewards lawbreakers under a policy that is a constitutional violation, one that Secretary Kelly said as recently as this morning he doesn't believe that the constitutionality of this can be upheld, and he doesn't expect that the Justice Department is going to defend it, and he anticipates that there will be a suit that will be filed--and I will tell you the specific date is September 5--that I believe will successfully litigate and put an end to this DACA program. This Congress, every Member of this United States Congress has taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States-- every one. And I don't think there is a single one that stood there and had their fingers crossed behind their back as they took their oath and said: ``Oh, unless I don't like it, it makes me politically uncomfortable, or unless I have some sympathy for the people that might be facing the enforcement of this supreme law of the land, the Constitution of the United States.'' They don't get to cross their fingers behind their back and make an oath that they don't mean.