Providing for Consideration of H.R. Expanding Access to Capital Act of and Providing for Consideration of H.R. Laken Riley Act

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Indiana for yielding me the time.

Mr. Speaker, the American people are sick and tired of the new status quo at our Nation's borders.

The crisis that President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have done nothing to stop is now affecting every State, every town, every village, and every city. It is endangering the lives of innocent American citizens.

A 22-year-old woman, Laken Riley, in Georgia was brutally murdered and taken from her family by an illegal immigrant who should have been locked up.

Jose Ibarra entered the United States illegally thanks to President Biden's refusal to uphold our laws and secure our border. He was given a one-way ticket on the taxpayer dime to New York City, a city that, thanks to Democrats in New York, has been declared a sanctuary city. Again, this is a self-made, self-imposed crisis on the American people.

After being arrested in New York City for child endangerment, Jose Ibarra was released back on the streets. Why, you might ask, Mr. Speaker? It is because of, once again, the policies of the left. New York State's disastrous bail reform laws have turned the State's justice system into a revolving door for violent offenders.

Democrats in New York City, New York State, and right here in Washington know damn well that this is the result of their senseless policies. The Biden administration's border crisis and New York's bail reform have shattered lives not just in my home State of New York but also now in the State of Georgia.

How many more American lives will it take for us to close the border? How many violent crimes will it take for this administration and Democratic leaders in cities and States across this country to end their disastrous policies that are endangering the American people and threatening the sovereignty of this country?

I strongly support H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act, and I am a proud cosponsor because enough is enough, Mr. Speaker.

House Republicans have passed one measure after another this Congress to bring security--real security--back to our border and real change that ensures that the Federal Government upholds our immigration laws. Our solutions have been greeted with resounding opposition from the same Democrats whose policies have led to this crisis on our border, the crisis in New York City, and now this horrific tragedy and murder in Georgia.

Mr. Speaker, I strongly support passage of the rule today, and I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to wake up to this crisis, see the suffering that citizens and noncitizens alike have endured, and support H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act.

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