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Perdue Attends Cook County Fish Fry

March 1, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, disaster relief, law enforcement

Senator Attends Cook Fish Fry
The Valdosta Daily Times

Hundreds of Cook County residents turned out for shrimp, chicken, iced tea and a chance to hear from elected officials Friday.

Crowds packed the gymnasium at the Adel Church of God for the 11th Annual Cook County Courthouse Fish Fry.

The annual fish fry was inspired by former Sheriff D.J. Connell’s weekly fish fries with state troopers, judges, and others in the judicial circuit to promote fellowship, friendship and community continuity, said Cook County Probate Court Judge Chase Daughtrey

Among the featured speakers was Sen. David Perdue.

Perdue, a Republican, spoke about efforts to get hurricane relief on its way to South Georgia, Daughtrey said. An attempt was made to include that aid in the continuing resolution that ended the partial federal government shutdown but failed, he said.

The Senate intends to take up the issue soon.

Daughtrey said the senator also talked about border security, including a trip he recently took to the Mexican border with the U.S. Border Patrol.

Perdue’s group met three people who came across the border illegally and talked about how they paid cartels to smuggle them across, Daughtrey said.

Other invited guests included Rep. Austin Scott and Court of Appeals Judge Trent Brown.

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Perdue: Southern Border Crisis Is “Staggering”

February 14, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, illegal immigration

David Perdue: Southern Border Crisis Is “Staggering”
Sean Moran, Breitbart
February 14, 2019

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) talked about his trip to the southern border and said the crisis is “staggering.”

Sen. Perdue visited the border on early Monday morning with Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) to see the border security crisis firsthand. The two Republicans saw illegal crossing hotspots and received real-time briefings from border patrol agents.

Perdue and Daines’ trip came as Congress works on passing a potential compromise bill that would provide a fraction of President Donald Trump’s requested $5.7 billion in border wall funding, as well as increased border patrol officers.

Sen. Perdue said that he has gained a different perspective from his trip to the border and called the security crisis, “staggering.” He said:

I have a different perspective coming back from the border. We were out there all night with border patrol agents who were apprehending people crossing there illegally. It was shocking to see the security crisis there on the ground. There are Mexican drug cartels right across the river who are violently opposing each other and trying to dominate that sector. So, there are a lot of drugs coming across that border. Both at the POEs (Ports of Entry) but also literally on rafts coming across the river. So we saw the rafts, we saw the scouts, we saw the mules as they call them that actually bring drugs across in open daylight. It was staggering.

Read more in Breitbart.

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Perdue Visits U.S. – Mexico Border

February 12, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, southern border

Senator David Perdue visits U.S.-Mexico border
WTVM
February 11, 2019

Georgia Senator David Perdue made his way down to the nation’s border with Mexico to see the national security crisis firsthand.

Senator Perdue began his trip on the morning of Feb. 11.

The Senator visited illegal crossing hotspots and received real-time briefings from border patrol agents.

Read more in WTVM.

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State Of The Union Reaction On Fox News

February 6, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, Latest Videos, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, economy, jobs, socialism, State of the Union

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Full Statement On The State Of The Union Address

February 6, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, economy, global security, jobs, State of the Union, trade

Last night, President Donald J. Trump laid out a powerful vision for America that continues to build on the successes of the last two years. Americans are seeing higher paychecks, more opportunities, and brighter futures for their families. The economy is now growing at twice the rate it did under President Obama. Over 4.5 million new jobs have been created. Total unemployment is the lowest it’s been in nearly 50 years, and African-American, Hispanic, and Asian American unemployment are all the lowest ever recorded.

Much has been accomplished. However, we still need bipartisan solutions to address rising health care costs, fix our broken immigration system, rebuild and modernize our infrastructure, and negotiate fair trade deals with partners around the world.

While President Trump delivered a positive message, Democrats sat on their hands. There is a clear contrast between the results we’ve seen under President Trump and radical Democrat policies that have repeatedly been proven to fail.

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Pre-State Of The Union Interview With PBS NewsHour

February 6, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, Latest Videos, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, economic growth, economy, funding process, jobs, State of the Union, trade

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David Talks Border Security & Funding On Fox Business

January 30, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, Latest Videos, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, funding process, immigration, Venezuela

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Senate Democrats Should End Resistance To Policies They Previously Supported

January 19, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, funding process, immigration, national security, shutdown

Statement on President Trump’s remarks today: 

Today, President Trump again spoke directly to the American people about the national security crisis at our southern border. This President has listened to both sides and is still willing to compromise, and all members of Congress should take the proposal seriously.

However, some Senate Democrats rejected the proposal before even hearing the details. This rejection underscores how desperate they are to keep making an immigration a political issue instead of working toward a real bipartisan solution that could reopen the government.

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VP Pence: Democrats Refuse To Compromise

January 17, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, immigration, shutdown, wall

Democrats refuse to compromise on border wall funding to end the shutdown
By Vice President Mike Pence
USA Today

America has a national security and humanitarian crisis at our southern border, and President Donald Trump has promised to end it. We’ve already taken important steps, but rather than work with us to make further progress, Democrats in Congress have refused to compromise on the wall, leading to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

The American people deserve better. Only the willfully blind — or politically blinded — could fail to see the scope and scale of this crisis.

The facts speak for themselves. Over the past three months, an average of 2,000 illegal and inadmissible migrants have arrived at our southern border every day. Today, the majority of illegal immigrants encountered by Customs and Border Protection are families and children. Last month, CBP apprehended nearly 40 percent more unaccompanied children and groups claiming to be families than in May 2014, which President Barack Obama described as a “humanitarian crisis.”

Then, as now, the flood of illegal traffic brings with it a deluge of drugs, criminals and violence. Over the past two years, CBP has arrested thousands of criminals at the southern border. In 2018, across the entire southwest border, CBP also seized over 827,000 pounds of drugs, including more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl, primarily at points of entry.

These criminals and these drugs shatter American homes and steal American lives. Our hearts grieve for the families of the 300 Americans who die every single week from overdoses involving heroin, nearly 90 percent of which enters the country from across our southern border.

And it’s not just Americans who suffer. According to Doctors Without Borders, 70 percent of illegal immigrants report being victims of violence along the journey at the hands of human traffickers, drug smugglers and vicious gangs. About a third of women are sexually assaulted on their way to America.

The courageous men and women of law enforcement are fighting tirelessly to protect our nation from these threats and rescue migrants in danger. They also face serious hazards themselves. Assaults on CBP officers increased by 46 percent in 2017, and attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are at their highest level in seven years.

The American people caught a tragic glimpse of this danger the day after Christmas, when a police officer in California — a legal immigrant — was murdered by an illegal immigrant.

President Trump and I recognize that border security is national security. That’s why this president has made it a priority to end this crisis, secure our border, build a wall, and protect the American people.

Since even before this partial government shutdown began, our administration has attempted to work with Democrats in good faith. Last week, we proposed a compromise that contains both Republican and Democratic priorities, including the president’s request for $5.7 billion to fund a steel barrier on the southern border and more than $7 billion to address a wide variety of security and humanitarian needs, many of which have been long supported by both parties in Congress.

But the American people deserve to know: Democrats refuse to negotiate on building the wall.

Even as we face a crisis on our southern border, and as 800,000 federal workers go without paychecks, Democrats in Congress have been unwilling to seriously discuss even partial wall funding. President Trump and our administration will not be deterred by the Democrats’ obstruction. The American people want to see action, and we intend to deliver.

It’s time for Democrats in Congress to do their job, negotiate in good faith, and reach an agreement that ends the humanitarian and security crisis at our border and reopens the government. The American people deserve nothing less.

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Perdue On Shutdown: “Totally irresponsible,” “broken process”

January 17, 2019  |  

Filed Under: Latest News, News From The Trail Tagged With: border security, broken budget process, budget process, shutdown

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) joins CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to discuss the government shutdown as it enters its 26th day.

“This whole shutdown is over less than 10% of our total federal spending for the year,” Perdue explained. “We stayed here in August last year and got to 75% of our discretionary budget. As bad as that is, it is the first time in 22 years that even happened.”

“This is a broken process here. People in America ought to be outraged that we’re sitting here four months into this fiscal year.”

“We only have about 60-70 working days left in this fiscal year to get ready for 2020 in terms of the funding. I’m not betting heavily we’ll get funding done for 2020, so we’ll be right back here doing exactly this, unless we change the way we fund the government.”

Read more in RealClearPolitics.

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