WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) joined Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy and a group of House Republicans for a press conference at U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso on Monday. The press conference came after the group toured a migrant processing facility, spoke with Border Patrol agents, and surveyed vulnerable points of the border. View photos from the visit here.

 Watch Congressman Gonzales’ remarks here.

 

TRANSCRIPT

“Today is about our men and women in green. Our border patrol agents are doing God’s work, keeping our borders safe and for that, I want them to know we have your back. I am grateful that Leader McCarthy and other members of the Congressional delegation made it down today. For too long, our border communities have been forgotten. That is changing today. We have your back.

America is a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws. Border security and legal immigration go hand and hand. We are compassionate people. We do not want to see overcrowding in our spaces. We do not want to see families make dangerous treks across countries that they don’t understand and put themselves at risk. What we want to do is attract the best and the brightest that this world has to offer, and we want them to come in a legal fashion. We can do that but that first starts by supporting our border security.”