Providing for Consideration of H.R. Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, and Providing for Consideration of H.R. Schools Not Shelters Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I would note that my colleague on the other side of the aisle from Pennsylvania referred to the crisis that we are experiencing on the southern border as a ``fake'' crisis.

I just want everyone in America to understand: Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle believe that what we are experiencing on the southern border is a fake crisis.

She said: demonizing migrants. She is criticizing Governor Abbott for having to deal with the crisis that they call fake.

Governor Abbott, yes, moved migrants from Texas to other parts of the country, just like the mayor of El Paso and just like the mayor of New York. The mayor of New York, by the way, exists in a sanctuary city and then wants to come begging the Federal Government for money. That is the truth.

We know precisely what is going on along the southern border, and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are not just in denial, they are literally making up facts. They are saying things that are completely untrue.

Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have to appropriate $10 billion--$10 billion?

That is what the State of Texas had to do to make up for the fact that the Federal Government is not only refusing to enforce the law, but it is actively participating--as this President is doing and as the Secretary of Homeland Security is doing while he lies to me under oath in the Judiciary Committee--actively participating in the trafficking of human beings into the United States and the trafficking of little girls into the sex trafficking trade.

Was it a fake crisis for the 53 migrants who were cooked in a tractor-trailer last August in San Antonio, Texas? Is that fake?

Is it a fake crisis for the 856 migrants who died along the Rio Grande in south Texas and in Arizona last year? Is that fake?

Is it fake for the little girl who is sitting in a stash house in Houston, San Antonio, New York, or Philadelphia right now being raped by her captors?

Or in Fort Worth, Texas, as a Federal judge articulated in a Federal opinion just 2 months ago?

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for the time.

Mr. Speaker, of course, it is not fake.

We are having to impact the entire country, and that is why I support the gentleman's bill, Schools Not Shelters. Yes, we passed other legislation, like H.R. 2, which would address the problem but which my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and this President refused to do.

We are doing this, of course, jointly, while we are trying to move the FAA reauthorization. I support that bill too, but we must include slots--I just want to be very clear--for the people in San Antonio and for cities outside of the perimeter that was created in 1966.

It is critically important for the American people to have access to their Nation's Capitol--including San Antonio, with 1.6 million people, the seventh largest city in the country--to have access to the Ronald Reagan National Airport.

So I hope we will adopt that amendment so the FAA bill can move strongly to the Senate and get passed.

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