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Immigration and infrastructure reform were focal points at this year's Statespersons' Luncheon, where U.S. Representatives Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., shared their insights from the nation's capital.

Around 100 people – including legislators, local officials and business professionals alike – packed into the East Valley Institute of Technology's Culinary Arts School last week for the PHX East Valley Partnership's annual luncheon.

The U.S.-Mexico border is a humanitarian and national security disaster. It is a problem of epic proportions that must be solved. Here is what we five Republican U.S. House members saw on the Arizona-Mexico border last week.

We hadn't been on the border long when we saw several illegal immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents, including a group of 42.

House Republicans on Tuesday introduced legislation that they say would provide a "free market alternative" to paid family leave proposals.

The Freedom for Families Act — introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and co-sponsored by 12 Republicans — would allow individuals to use health savings accounts (HSAs) to cover expenses while on leave following a birth, adoption or family member's illness.

Democrats truly have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Kirstjen Nielsen is out as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Ron Vitiello's name was pulled from the nomination to direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yet the president's political opponents are howling about these changes as if they were supporters of Nielsen and Vitiello. In reality, change comes in political circles, and sometimes very often.

The Mueller investigation was an illegitimate attack on the executive branch.

This statement remains true especially considering that the ethically conflicted, anti-Trump biased team of 19 full-time government prosecutors found that there was no "collusion" and no obstruction of justice. Mueller's findings demonstrate the weakness of the initial premise to investigate Trump, his family and campaign staff.

The left-wing media will never learn to tell the truth. That was reinforced when we learned that even though special counsel Robert Mueller's cleared President Trump of false claims against him, many in the media energetically spun the report in a way that perpetuated their anti-Trump narrative of the last two years.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report found no evidence of collusion between the Trump team and Russians that influenced the 2016 election. Also, no evidence of obstruction of justice. Witnesses were harassed for the past two years to further the Democrats' and James Comey's political agenda. All indictments arising out of the investigation were wholly unrelated to any notion of members of the Trump campaign working with the Russians.

One of our primary duties as members of Congress is to ensure our veteran constituents receive their health-care benefits in a timely manner. Unfortunately, too many of them in Arizona still do not.

We know this because veterans come daily into our offices seeking congressional intervention to resolve the bureaucratic nightmares that they face at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Heath Care System.