Crises the White House is Causing At Home and Abroad

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Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate my good friend from my neighbor, Louisiana, Mr. Johnson, for having this Special Order.

No, it doesn't look like things are going to change, as the gentleman said. Joe Biden has no interest in securing the southern border. He has proven it time and time again over the last 14 months.

On day one of his Presidency, our Commander in Chief stopped completely the construction of our border wall, which is, by the way, something that Congress appropriated funds for and is something that we know for a fact deters illegal crossings.

In fact, the Department of Homeland Security reported that illegal entries in areas with the new border wall system along the Yuma sector plummeted more than 87 percent in fiscal year 2020, compared with the previous year of 2019.

President Biden's foolish decision to stop construction of this wall left millions of taxpayer dollars' worth of steel just rusting away in the hot sun and the cold, wet winters; millions of your tax dollars simply gone to waste.

He ended remain in Mexico, a policy that The Washington Post reported made illegal apprehensions fall by 30 percent in its very first year alone.

He has tied the hands of ICE who, last year, deported the lowest number of illegal aliens since 1995, despite more than 2 million alien apprehensions. Interior enforcement is drying up to nothing.

And now he is scrapping title 42, the very last policy that saves CBP from drowning in a complete sea of chaos.

But if all of this isn't enough to convince you that Joe Biden doesn't have your best interests in mind, take a look at his budget request for 2023. He wants $73 trillion--that is with a T--in spending, $58 trillion--another T--more in taxes. And our debt will increase by $16 trillion--with a T--over the next decade.

I did a quick search for the phrase ``border security'' in this budget. It is mentioned twice. We are facing the worst border crisis on record and a historic number of fentanyl overdoses from drugs illegally smuggled into our country, over 100,000 dead Americans from drug overdoses, and yet, the President mentioned border security only twice.

Do you know how often he mentions the word ``climate''? 187 times.

Joe Biden claims that he is working to protect America but, folks, the facts actually say otherwise. The facts show that he doesn't care about keeping you and your family safe. The facts show he doesn't care about protecting the livelihood that you worked so hard for. And the facts show that he doesn't care about the sovereignty or the security of our great Nation that we love, a beacon of liberty and freedom for all the world to look at and envy.

That is why they are coming here. Shame on President Biden.

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