Providing for Consideration of H.R. Middle Class Borrower Protection Act of Providing for Consideration of H.R. Custom Health Option and Individual Care Expense Arrangement Act; and Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Condemning the Use of Elementary and Secondary School Facilities to Provide Shelter for Aliens Who Are Not Admitted to the United States

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, five counties in my district have declared a state of emergency in response to the influx of migrants since title 42 ended. These five counties didn't declare a state of emergency out of hate or a lack of compassion but because they simply do not have the resources to handle the unprecedented flood of illegal immigration.

Our local taxpayers and tax dollars meant to support our kids in schools across Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Allegheny Counties are instead going to house illegal immigrants, thanks to a crisis that the Biden administration created.

My colleagues across the aisle have claimed time and again that by opposing an unprecedented influx of illegal immigration, Republicans somehow lack compassion or humanity. Mr. Speaker, allowing fentanyl to flood in from our southern border, killing thousands of Americans, and offering no concrete solutions to combat this epidemic is not compassionate. Standing back and demonizing our Border Patrol agents while the cartels traffic countless human beings, including young children, into this country is not compassionate. The Department of Health and Human Services losing track of 85,000 migrant children, with an untold number trafficked and exploited, is not compassionate, either.

Foisting this inhumane crisis onto the backs of small-town America after the richest, most liberal enclaves in our country, like Martha's Vineyard, clutch their pearls at even the sight of one group of illegal immigrants is not compassionate.

I am proud to cosponsor H. Res. 461 to be considered under this rule, and I look forward to this and many more steps Republicans in the House are taking to secure our border and to force this administration to uphold our immigration laws.

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