American Dream and Promise Act of 2021
Floor Speech
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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding me time.
Mr. Speaker, a couple of nights ago, I was in Laredo, Texas, doing an interview while overlooking the Rio Grande. My interview was interrupted by a stream of human smugglers and people shouting ``run for the ladders, run for the fences'' coming from the water. Then, some went back across the river.
I went over to a facility where children are being housed right now. They are the people being smuggled by cartels for profit. That is happening right now today. While we sit in here and debate this bill, it is happening right now.
A child is being abused right now by cartels. And this body, the ``people's House,'' is doing nothing--nothing--to address cartels that have ownership of our borders right now.
We are not doing our job. A secure border is pro-immigrant. Instead, what we are doing today is we are going to pass legislation that is a magnet for more trafficking of children. We are going to pass legislation today that empowers cartels. We are going to pass legislation today that is a Band-Aid on a broken system because this body refuses to do its constitutional duty to secure the borders of the United States. That is what we are going to do today.
Meanwhile, nothing is going to improve the life of the little girl sitting in Nuevo Laredo right now being abused under the hands of CDN for the $3,000 or $7,000 to move that little girl across the river while Border Patrol doesn't have the resources to secure the border.
I was down on the river with the guy who is on a 3-mile stretch of the border--one guy--and he can do nothing about that flow while narcotics and fentanyl come across our border.
So, pat ourselves on the back today, Mr. Speaker, for a bill that is going to get passed and headline speeches given about how all this is so great for immigrants. Meanwhile, immigrants today are getting raped, abused, beaten, sold into indentured slavery, and put into human sex trafficking because we refuse to secure the border of the United States. And we will never get a chance to offer an amendment on the floor of this body to do anything about it.
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