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If we don’t enforce our immigration laws, we have no immigration laws. If we have no immigration laws, we have no border. And if we have no border, we have no country.
Yet that is the clear objective of congressional Democrats. They propose to completely defund the agencies that enforce our immigration laws. That’s right there in the Senate bill: zero dollars to ICE and CBP.
Congressman Tom McClintock penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner discussing freedom and socialism and the impact of both on government policies.
Via the Washington Examiner:
Government is Still the Problem
By Congressman Tom McClintock
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 3109, the REFINER Act:
- Nearly a billion dollars in congressional earmarks that bypass the competitive process that awards funding based on merit and not political deals.
- Billions of dollars taken from taxpayers of one community to pay for local water projects that exclusively benefit some other community (in effect robbing St. Petersburg to pay St. Paul.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-05) delivered the following remarks on the House floor during debate on recission legislation:
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the one Big Beautiful Bill Act reconciliation legislation. Rep. McClintock (CA-05) voted in favor of the measure, and he delivered remarks this morning on the House floor. Rep McClintock’s remarks (video link):
“A Big, Beautiful Future”
May 22, 2025