Close the Border

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Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I address you and this body because I know that you know more than most what it is like to have the impacts of illegal immigration in your State and across the border.

In the town of Yuma, a town of about 100,000 people, every day in their hospital, they get 11 people who go into the emergency room. They get an additional four or five women every day in Yuma, Arizona, who go into the maternity ward. Mr. Speaker, $20.4 million in uncompensated care was provided by that hospital in just the first 6 months of this year.

Mr. Speaker, you and I both know that when the Vice President said on Sunday that our border is not open, she was not telling the truth. Our border is wide open, and it has inherent dangers and problems for the United States of America.

We can close it today. I encourage Members of this House to join me in getting my discharge petition out. We need to close this border.

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