Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I hope the American people are listening right now. The Democrats would rather shut down the government than end an unsustainable and unsafe border crisis that has flooded our streets with fentanyl, an unsustainable flow of illegal immigrants destroying New York City, as Mayor Adams says, and only enriching the drug cartels.

This bill is common sense, and everyone should support it. It does three things that the American people want. It avoids a shutdown; it cuts excessive, wasteful spending that has led us to a $33 trillion debt; and it secures our border. It stops an unsustainable and unsafe crisis.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to put taxpaying, hardworking American citizens and their safety first.

I heard my colleague from New York City say that it was cruel that we want to secure our borders. Do you know what is cruel? In New York City yesterday, at one of the migrant shelters, a 7-year-old girl was sexually abused. Do you know what is cruel? Somebody was stabbed at the Roosevelt shelter in Manhattan. The fact is, there are dozens of crimes being committed, and our mayor and you guys are doing nothing about it.

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