Crisis At the Southern Border

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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I am so happy that the gentlewoman from Colorado organized this effort tonight. We need to be speaking about it, and of course, I would call on our friends from this side of the aisle.

It is interesting that we are standing on this side of the aisle. I mean, thank goodness somebody is willing to stand over here and defend the country.

Mr. Speaker, I call on my Democrat colleagues to start answering some questions and start defending their country from this invasion.

But if the gentleman doesn't know this, if you do a quick calculation--this isn't Congressman Perry, Congresswoman Boebert, Congressman Roy, any of us up here. This is DHS. The Department of Homeland Security is bracing for 18,000 crossings a day, 18,000 people coming across the border illegally each day.

Now, I don't know, for each one of you, the size of your town where you come from, but I suspect 18,000 in any town would make a pretty big dent unless you are talking about one of the major cities like Los Angeles or something like that.

Even so, 18,000 a day, Mr. Speaker, that is over 6\1/2\ million people, if we keep that rate up, 6\1/2\ million people in 1 year illegally coming to our country.

Congressman Norman or Congresswoman Boebert, could your business sustain something like that?

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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, my final thoughts are that there are Democrats that are decrying this. We can do something about it, and they can do something about it right here in this House. They can walk right down there to the well and sign this discharge petition. We don't need all of them; we need eight of them.

Bring the bill up. If they don't believe we ought to continue to try and secure our border with title 42, they can vote against it, but let us have a vote.

We are just asking for a vote. Let's see what the vote count is, and then the American people will know who stands with them and who stands for a wide-open border because that is what we are going to have. Think about that.

To the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert), we certainly appreciate her putting this together for us and providing the opportunity to come and talk on behalf of our constituents that are very concerned about this.

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