[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I will start with associating myself 
with my colleagues who have just spoken and say, ``Glory to Ukraine'' 
and to indicate that my heart is broken. The words will not elevate the 
despicable actions of Vladimir Putin.
  Today we voted to secure and seek, I hope, an indictment. He is a war 
criminal, and he is killing children.
  But I must, Mr. Speaker, suggest that we have a difficult problem at 
the border exacerbated by Governor Greg Abbott, who wishes to make a 
mockery of the desperate people coming, including Ukrainian refugees, 
who gather at the southern border. Today, he has announced that he will 
bus these migrants to Washington, D.C.
  I am embarrassed.
  With the likes of George H.W. Bush, Ann Richards, Henry B. Gonzalez, 
as well as Barbara Jordan, who are brothers and sisters of Texas, I now 
have to live with Governor Greg Abbott who disgraces us by suggesting 
that we must take migrants and drop them off on the steps of the 
Capitol.
  I welcome them.
  Why don't we sit down and resolve how we deal with these desperate 
people? Why don't we find a way, as we were trying to do with George W. 
Bush, to have an immigration policy? But when he does that, he will 
also do that to Ukrainian refugees at the southern border.
  Enough is enough.

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