Goldman [Homeland Security Committee]: Under the Trump administration, the administration starting using…a misdemeanor charge, that effectively charges anybody with a crime for crossing the border…the only purpose of using the misdemeanor criminal charge as opposed to an administrative immigration preceding, is to separate parents from children.

Clarke [Homeland Security Committee]: [This bill] would resume work on former President Trump's wasteful, ineffective border wall…my amendment would address one of the primary factors exasperating global migration trends, climate change.

['climate change' is not causing 'global migration', the UN is]

Democrats are so desperately trying to interfere with the Border Reinforcement Act, that they are offering amendments about challenge coins and climate change in the Markup Committee.

Ramirez [Homeland Security Committee]: What is forcing people to leave their small villages, and nearly die, bringing their children, children that I personally know., that I'm related to?