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Enforcement, but we must also tell the story of our communities. communities like mcallen and san benito and brownsville, this powerful, proud story of how we are safe communities. very often, safer than the average city in the interior of the united states. let's tell the story of our communities, including from local law enforcement, who tell us that when everyone has a shared stake in the success of our community, then everyone feels comfortable reporting a crime, testifying in a trial, serving as a witness, contributing to our safety and our security. let's use our example, our life, our e...

2,000 miles. because of the people of this community, of mcallen and the people of the border and the people of texas, we got this administration, at least temporarily, to desist in this policy of taking kids away from their parents, but we know full well that tonight, there are hundreds of kids who have yet to be reunited with their parents, who don't know when or even if they're going to see them again. you ask what we, the people of texas, can do about this. first, we can ensure that never again is another child taken from another parent coming here to seek asylum. two, we can insist that i...

1971, the year before our birth. doesn't mean that we don't have serious challenges on our borders and threats against which we must remain vigilant. there are people who would smuggle other people into this country, others who would bring illegal drugs and try to traffic them into our communities. we must support the nearly 20,000 women and men of the border patrol and that important job that they do to keep our communities safe. we must support local law enforcement, but we must also tell the story of our communities. communities like mcallen and san benito and brownsville, this powerful, pr...

Of texas here in the rio grande valley. >> wonderful. >> hi, congressman. how are you, first of all? >> i'm great. how are you? >> i'm great. congressman, throughout the campaign you have been attacked for being what don junior has called an irish guy pretending to be hispanic. what does the hispanic community mean to you? >> to clarify the question about my name, i was born robert francis o'rourke, son of pat francis o'rourke who was the son of john francis o'rourke, father to ulysses francis o'rourke who will go as ufo for much of his life. and from day one, in el paso, and you know this in ...

To that mother from honduras, and she told me how she'd been on the road for the last three weeks, how she was trying to bring her daughter to safety and salvation, unbeknownst to them, they would be separated within hours. and that little girl, the entire time that i was talking to her mother, never once took her eyes off the most important person in her life, never let go of that hand to which i bet she had been holding every single day for the last three weeks for the last 2,000 miles. because of the people of this community, of mcallen and the people of the border and the people of texas, ...