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Dangerous Open Border Policies

Floor Speech

Date: April 28, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the utter failure of President Biden's dangerous open border policies.

In March, there were over 221,000 illegal encounters at our southern border, a 542 percent increase, bringing the total under Biden's watch to more than 2.4 million. Forty-two of those apprehended were on the terrorist watch list. This can't happen.

Illegal migrants are being dispersed into communities throughout country, making every State a border State, Mr. Speaker.

Meanwhile, my constituent, an American citizen, has been told his wife and daughter, who have fled war-torn Ukraine, must wait up to 2 years outside the United States for a visa interview.

This is wrong. These policies reward those who violate our laws and punish those trying to do the right thing.

They also put law enforcement officers in serious peril, as evidenced by the death of Texas National Guardsman Bishop Evans. May his memory be eternal. He tragically drowned last week while courageously working to save individuals trying to cross the Rio Grande River illegally.

This insanity has to stop.

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