Robert Byrd Quotes
He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.
Byrd, Robert C. Congressional Record, vol. 139, 10 Feb. 1993.
In 2016 millions of refugees were fleeing the chaos, violence, dictatorships, and revolutions of many of the Muslim Nations of the Middle East and the nations in Africa where Islamists were using violence and terrorism to try and take over the governments. Many, despite the danger, tried to reach Europe, and millions did—–far more than the European governments were prepared to handle and most European populations were unwilling to accept. This immigration created another crisis of its own.
Robert Carlyle Byrd was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd also served as a U.S. Representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history; he was the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress until surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. He was the last remaining member of the U.S. Senate to have served during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, and he was the last remaining member of Congress to have served during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the state legislature and both chambers of Congress.
