Don't Play Games with Homeland Security

Floor Speech

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Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to stand against the tactics
used by the House Republicans for their partisan fights. I find it
unconscionable that the House Republicans would threaten the funding of
the Department of Homeland Security over the President's executive
action on immigration.

We just saw what happened to our friends in France, and now, they are
going to play games with our national security and threaten its
funding. This executive action isn't an election strategy or a scheme
to grow the Federal Government; it is a moral imperative.

The President acted because this House refused to even vote on the
bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. It was widely expected that
a vote on that bill would have succeeded.

Our broken immigration system has forced millions to live their lives
in fear. The President's action is the right thing to do, is the humane
thing to do.

I oppose the defunding of this executive action, Mr. Speaker, and I
oppose the threatening of the funding of the Department of Homeland
Security and, by extension, our national security.

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