Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015

Floor Speech

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Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Chair, I think my Republican colleagues take the
American people for fools.

Madam Chair, I lost too many constituents and friends on 9/11. I lost
people who I loved on 9/11. And in the years since then, New York City
has been the focus of attempted terror plots too numerous to name.

Homeland Security funding is something that I take very seriously
because it is so much a part of a New Yorker's life. And frankly, I
would expect my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to take it as
seriously as well.

But this is not a serious effort by any stretch of the imagination.
You know what's good for our national security?

Bringing people out of the shadows so that we know who is in our
country, focusing our limited enforcement resources on true threats to
our country and not holding up needed funding for security and law
enforcement programs to make a political point.

It is a political point they are trying to make. If my colleagues on
the other side of the aisle genuinely think our immigration system
should deport parents instead of true criminals, if you want to destroy
all our economic gains and throw a sucker punch to our economy by
deporting 11 million people, then you know what? Bring a bill up on the
floor, and let's have a real debate on all those issues.

Don't walk in here and tell me and the American people that this
garbage belongs in the Homeland Security funding bill. Don't tell the
American people that. They are not suckers and they are not fools. They
know what you are doing.

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