Crisis At the Border

Floor Speech

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I am here before a relatively empty Chamber, as is too often the case in the people's House, as I want to raise to the attention of the American people the absolute crisis and tragedy that is occurring on the southern border of the United States. It is unconscionable what we are allowing to occur.

As we speak today, a little girl and her mom will be abused on the journey through Mexico while this country, the most powerful nation in the history of the world, buries its head in the sand because my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, in a cynical political gesture and move, refuse to actually take up the supplemental request from the President of the United States for $4\1/2\ billion to provide the beds and the resources necessary to deal with the crisis, and to start taking up the bills that we should take up to ensure we fix the asylum crisis that cartels are using for profit, and to fix the catch- and-release broken system that is allowing our system to be overrun, allowing communities in Texas to be overrun.

This is a tragedy, and it is unconscionable that this body will not address it.

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