One thousand and seven hundred-plus miles. That’s the distance between 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the Texas border city of McAllen, Texas. President Obama has never been there, which is perhaps why it is so easy for him to ignore the impact that his lawless executive amnesty is having on my border state of Texas and the country as a whole.

Well I did see firsthand the extent of Obama’s man-made illegal immigration crisis. I saw it when I led a congressional delegation with other Texas members to the Rio Grande Valley sector of our border in 2014. And let me tell you, what the president has done is wrong. His sweeping executive amnesty in 2012 and again in 2014, along with his failure to secure our border and enforce our immigration laws, is harmful across-the-board.