it was as executive orders ordering us not to enforce immigration laws that yated and incentive and driver that has led to this crisis and only that, only executive orders to begin to enforce our immigration la laws would allow us to stop what is happening now. but the president continues to refuse to issue those executive orders. he continues to refuse to enforce our immigration laws and so the crisis continues. and sadly just a few moments ago we took a vote here that basically says we here in the senate will not be allowed to vote on amendments to make changes to this bill. and so we are left with the choice. i am left with this choice. if i want to help israel, if i want to help taiwan, if i want to ban bytedance from operating tiktok in the united states, then i have to drop my demand that the president enforce our immigration laws and by the way, i have to vote for billions of dollars to be spent on all kinds of programs around the world that i'll describe in a moment. including for people that are illegally entering this country. this is moral extortion. first, nine million people o