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Setting Forth the Congressional Budget for the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2022 and Setting Forth the Appropriate Budgetary Levels for Fiscal Years 2023 Through 2031

Floor Speech

By: Ted Cruz
By: Ted Cruz
Date: Aug. 10, 2021
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. CRUZ. Mr. President, I call up my amendment No. 3781 and ask that it be reported by number.

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Mr. CRUZ. Mr. President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support my amendment ensuring that the Department of Homeland Security continues to have the legal authority to expel illegal immigrants who may have COVID-19 under title 42 of the U.S. Code to protect Americans from the spread of this deadly pandemic.

There is a crisis at our border caused by this administration's policies, and the fact is that our open borders and unlimited illegal immigration coming into this country are contributing to the spread of COVID-19 and to the dangerous Delta variant. For example, McAllen, TX, one city in the Rio Grande Valley, has a population of 141,000 people. But this year alone, the Biden administration has released more than 7,000 illegal aliens who have been positive for COVID-19. In fact, this week alone, 1,315 illegal aliens were released positive with COVID-19.

This is a serious public health crisis. Title 42 gives the administration the authority to protect public health against this pandemic.
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Mr. CRUZ. Madam President, I call up my amendment No. 3681 and ask that it be reported by number.

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Mr. CRUZ. Madam President, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support this amendment to create a point of order against any legislation that would fund or subsidize the import of electric vehicles with supply lines that run through Xinjiang.

Right now, the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide against millions of Uighurs in Xinjiang. They are being tortured, murdered, and forced into slave labor. The CCP has exploited that slave labor to ensure that much of the world's EVs are made in Xinjiang and have parts produced in Xinjiang.

Our Nation is in perilous risk of becoming complicit in these atrocities as part of the massive rush to import EVs. This amendment would prohibit our bringing in EVs that are made with slave labor. We cannot and should not fund slave labor in communist China.

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Mr. CRUZ. Pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act, I move to waive, and

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