in the last two years, i.c.e. officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings. over the years, thousands of americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country and thousands more lives will be lost if we don t act right now. this is a humanitarian crisis. a crisis of the heart, and a crisis of the soul. last month, 20,000 migrant children were illegally brought into the united states, a dramatic increase. these children are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs.
while allowing debate over border security to continue. there is no excuse for hurting millions of americans over a policy difference. federal workers are about to miss a paycheck. some families can t get a mortgage to buy a new home. farmers and small businesses won t get loans they desperately need. most presidents have used oval office addresses for noble purposes. this president just used the backdrop of the oval office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration. my fellow americans, there is no challenge so great that our nation cannot rise to meet it. we can reopen the government and continue to work through disagreements over policy. we can secure our border without an ineffective, expensive wall. and we can welcome legal immigrants and refugees without
wall, because the news noooose tightening in the mueller investigation. he wants to talk about the wall because that s what won the primary. in order to divert attention from rethe real serious constitutional crisis that we have. you can cast it that way. but here s what we know for sure. the idea that there s no suggestion or proof that the campaign had anything to do with russian interference efforts can no longer be said without any type of check if it s true. if what mueller says happened happened. and manafort s lawyers didn t push back on saying, no, he didn t give him anything. but chris, there was so many different things before this that already led to that. true, true. the russian lawyer, the stone this was the most we ve seen. but a fair point back. flynn lying to the fbi. there was an evening in the white house and attorney general was there and the fbi director was there and the vice president was there and the president said, hey, mr. vice presid