Protecting Our Communities From Failure to Secure the Border Act of 2023

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Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 5283 by Representative Malliotakis, the Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure our Border Act of 2023.

Our national parks should be used by our families for recreation. They should not be used as a cover-up for President Biden's failed border policies. Since President Biden took office, there have been over 6.4 million illegal crossings of our southern border, including 169 on the terrorist watch list. Yet, instead of implementing more border security and reinstating the policies that worked, this administration is housing migrants in our schools and now in our national parks.

Meanwhile, there are ICE facilities that are sitting empty, such as the Adelanto ICE processing facility in California. This 2,000-bed facility, which is already fully funded, has sat empty since April 2020 due to a court injunction.

We must be fully utilizing the ICE facilities we already have that are prepared to care for migrants versus burdening our communities that don't have the proper resources or facilities.

Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to stop this lawlessness at our southern border and protect our national parks from becoming tent cities for illegal immigrants.

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