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Providing for Consideration of H.R. Secure the Border Act of Providing for Consideration of H.R. Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment Fraud Act

Floor Speech

Date: May 10, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my strong support for the rules package of H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.

One year ago today I was on the border with Mexico to see firsthand the deadly, chaotic crisis that this administration has created.

With a wink and a nod, this President has welcomed more than 6 million illegal aliens into our sovereign Nation. This is a human trafficking nightmare with some 85,000 children unaccounted for tonight, more than 100,000 of our fellow citizens have been murdered from fentanyl. Drugs are manufactured in Communist China and smuggled across our southern border, an open border that has opened business for the Mexican cartels that are now operating on our side of the border.

All we hear from this administration is lies; lies that their immigration policy is based on compassion. It is exploitation, not compassion.

We hear lies that the border is not open and that it is secure.

We hear lies that the Border Patrol uses whips on illegals. Look, I have been on a horse. I know the difference between a whip and a rein.

Just this past Monday, the White House came out with the biggest lie of all: that illegal immigration is down more than 90 percent under Biden.

At this very moment, there are more than 1 million people amassed near our southern border ready for title 42 to expire and stream across our border largely unchecked. This administration's solution is to send 1,500 troops, not to push them back, but to push pencils.

If this President and his Secretary of Homeland Security cannot find the grit to secure the border, we must do it in this Chamber.

Ronald Reagan once said: ``A nation that cannot control its border is not a nation.''

Today, like Colonel William Barrett Travis, we draw the line in the sand. We will not lose our Nation. We will not surrender to the drug cartels. We will not surrender to the lies of this administration, and we will not surrender America.

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