mr. flores, for five nute mr. flores: i request unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes and to revise and xtend. madam speaker, i rise today to honor penny celeste flores of waco, texas, who passed away on june 15, 2018. penny was born in 1948 in dallas, texas. she was educated at east texas state university, now known as texas a&m commerce, baylor university, the university of exas at arlington, mccollegeon community college, texas women's university. penny was very active in our waco community. she served on associations, commissions including the following -- president of the texas central museum district, vice president of the austin avenue neighborhood association, chair of the boy scouts award committee, chair of the mccollegeon -- the waco-mccollegeon county commission, historical commission, texas state technical college board of regents, city of washingo parks and recreation advisory commission, waco visitor's bureau board, and waco buildings and standards mmission. fo past eight years, pen

mr. flores? >> thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. if there is no questions, let's open this up for public comment. and actually, i think i have a full stack of cards here. but i also want to call up first -- [calling of speakers] >> hi. commissioners, representing district eight. we support the end of gang injuns. and they are separating parents from the children. currently the purpose is to tear families especially black and brown. this impacts all of us directly or incommunity for the specially children that are growing in dysfunctional home, poverty, and that may possibly lead to more violence. and aeadrcia of r justice and today we urge you to end the gang injunction. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> where can i start? violence at the border being divided, kids taken from mothers and in our backyards, families of cohave been getting racially profile profiled that are forced out of the communities. there is a process that one can get off and with how many people have gone, i got no answer. it is evident t

mr. flores. mr. flores: i rise today in support of h.r. 136. and i thank chairman demrat for allowing me to spend time for talking about this. i represent the 17th district of texas which has a number of colleges, universities and institutions of higher education that are home to hundreds of dreamers who are studying to improve their lives. we should give them a path to come out of the shadows by providing them with an earned path to legal status. these dreamers were brought here by their parents and for most, america is the only home they know. they did not commit the crimes to enter the country illegally. is this saying is amnesty difficult. it will ensure that children that are ap present heppeded at the border will not be separated from their parent. enforcing the law is important for the integrity of our immigration system and for the immigrants that come to our country legally, many of whom who reside in our strict. the president was right to stop the separation of children from their parents. only congress can enact a permanent solution

mr. flores who has all of these highly educated dreamers, they don't show up unless maybe it is in their district and these two professionals, i presume they could be lawyers. i met one of those. he is a doctor-lawyer and i said, we need a lawless lawyer. they don't paint the picture that i'm hearing among democrats and republicans on what a daca recipient is. it's true that many of them according to the records come in at a fairly young age. d but there are 135,000 of 817,000 that were brought in and average age is 37 years old. and it is our job to keep our oath of office to preserve, protect and that means defend the rule of law. if we allow it to be sacrificed because our hearts or politics overrule our heads, this country will rule the day and we, none of us can vote on this issue, here will live to see the day that the rule of law is restored again. i yield mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2017, the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. lowenthal, for 14 1/2 minutes. mr. lowen

mr. flores is recognizedfish 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. flores: thank you, mr. honor i rise today to bill hamilton. bill was born in dallas, texas on february 18, 1918. 1940, he graduated from the agricultural and mechanical college of texas now known as texas a&m university. he served as a lieutenant in the america. he was in command of an anti-aircraft unit. bill was part of the american defensive forces trying to hold allen from the japanese. fighting valiantly, they held the island for five months. the japanese had expected to take the island in three weeks. he and 21, 1942,, approximately 24 others gathered at the rock to observe ag gee muenster. they participated in this proud tradition and called the role for those who lost their lives in the preceding months. this event during wartime brought them to the attention of the entire world with the passing of bill hamilton, we have lost the last of the survivors of the 1942 muster at the rock. after being captured, bill spent 3 1/2 years as a prisoner of in the ng held at camps phillipine

mr. cissna, do you think the administration would support repeal of flores? >> that is indeed one of the things that secretary nielsen spoke about yesterday. repeal flores, but also you need to give i.c.e. enough funds to be able to hold the family units once you've repealed flores. >> but if i may ask a followup question. >> you may ask. >> is it not true, mr. cissna, that secretary nielsen and all of the administration spokespeople on this topic and most prominently the president himself, has said there have to be other parts of the proposal, including building a wall, stopping family reunification, essentially a variety of proposals that will be unacceptable to the majority of the united states congress? it's not just repeal of flores. >> right. the repeal of flores is one of several of the so-called loopholes that we want to be able to fix to address that situation on the border. including with the funding of i.c.e. for detention. all the other rest of it is part of a bigger picture. i'm in no positn to comment on what the administration would say about d

there is a way we can keep families together, legislative fix of the flores decision and argue about the other things later. right now, mrpresident, you are in a real bind. if you detain the adults, the law requires the children to be separated. if you let the adults into the country. they never show up. seems to me that we want to keep the family together and have the parents show up for their date in court. to surety schumer, senator schw there is a lot we don't agree on but surely to goodness we can fix this court decision because the country is in a bad spot. not just you. >> if you are weak. if you are weak, which some people would like to you be. if you are really really pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people if you are strong, then you don't have any heart. that's a tough dilemma. perhaps i would rather be strong but that's a tough dilemma. go ahead, ron. >> in our community, homeland security we have held 30 hearings on border security. you know how much i like data and senator graham mentioned the fact. there is not enticing people to take a dangerous journey on a train the

see if we find a way to keep families together, have a legislative fix of flores decision, to argue about other things later. mr. president, you're in a real bind. if you detain the adults, the law requires the children to be separated. if you let the adults into the country, they never show up. seems to me that we want to keep the family together and have the parents show up for their day in court, to senator schumer, i know there is a lot we don't agree on, but surely to goodness we can fix this court decision because the country is in a bad spot, not just you. >> lindsey, the dilemma is if you're weak, if you're weak, some people would like you to be, if you're really, really pathetically weak, the country will be overrun with millions of people. if you're strong, then you don't have any heart. that is a tough dilemma. perhaps i would rather be strong but that is a tough dilemma. go ahead. >> in our community, homeland security we held 30 hearings on border security. you know how much i like data. senator graham mentioned the fact we have incentive. there is nothing to entice people to take a dangerous journ

mr. trump signed an executive order he now says wouldnd it. so we're keeping families together and this will solve thatroblem. the reality is more complicated. in 1997 florestlement the tagovernment cannot dein children with their parents for 20 days, likely not enough time for adults to get a court hearing and out of 2300 children the government hascoirmed were separated from their so far since may 5th, the administration says only 522 children have been reunited with their families. >> what happens to the kids now that they've been separated from their parents? why di you guys sign it yesterday? children are scattered across the country, housed in about 100 shelters in 17 states and despite repeated requests, the department of health and human services has not allowed cameras inside forcing on government to rely on government handout images and in the midst of this crisis the white house declined to hold aing to answer questions for the public for four straight days. >> in this audioreleased by a civil rights attorney, a 6-year-old jime from el salvador begs to talk to her aunt. jimena is lucky becahe was able to memorize her aunt's phone number. ected w

keep families together, have a legislative fix of the flores decision and argue about the other things later. right now, you're in a real bind, mr. president. if you detain the adults, the law requires the children to be separated. if you let the adults into the country, they never show up. it seems to me that we want to keep the family together and have the parents show up for their day in court. to senator schumer, i know there's a lot we don't agree on, but surely to goodness we can fix this court decision, because the country is in a bad spot, not just you. >> lindsey, the dilemma is that if you're weak, if you're weak, which some people would like you to be, if you're really, really pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people. and if you're strong, then you don't have any heart. that's a tough dilemma. perhaps i would rather with stro strong, but that's a tough dilemma. >> at homeland security, we've held 30 hearings on border security. senator graham mentioned that we have these incentives. there's nothing compassionate about enticing tepeople to take this journey. we've seen pictures of d