Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Strongly Condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris's, Failure to Secure the United States Border

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, hundreds of thousands of Americans die every year from fentanyl. Communities, including many in my own district, have been ripped apart by the scourge of this deadly poison.

I have hosted roundtables with local law enforcement, families of victims, and other advocates all across my district. One thing I have consistently heard is that we need to stop the flow of fentanyl into this country.

Our police officers are struggling to keep up with the constant influx into our communities, and it is killing some of our youngest and brightest citizens.

Every American knows these deadly substances are flooding across our borders, brought to this country by criminals who directly benefit from the Biden-Harris administration's open-border policies. We also can't forget the other Americans who have been assaulted and murdered by illegal immigrants allowed to enter this country.

Laken Riley is dead. Rachel Morin is dead. Others have lost their lives. Even children have been brutally assaulted. Why? So our border czar, Kamala Harris, could score political points with the radical leftwing of her party.

Meanwhile, the State of New York is going bankrupt, spending billions of dollars to pay for housing, benefits, and food for this flood of illegal immigrants being released into the interior of this country.

Again, this is a direct result of the open-border and sanctuary policies of the Democratic Party under Biden-Harris. Vice President Harris, the anointed border czar, wholeheartedly supports these policies.

Time and again, she looks into the eyes of the American people who have seen loved ones die of fentanyl overdoses or have been the victims of criminals who were in this country illegally and lies to them. She lectures the American people about the root causes of illegal immigration and pretends that her policies had nothing to do with this historic crisis.

We are not buying it, and the American people won't buy it in November.

Rather than visit our southern border, she led a junket to Central America to plead and to beg migrants to not come.

It doesn't get more pathetic than begging other countries while paying lip service to Americans who are feeling the real pain of this crisis.

Now, of course, this is entirely consistent with Vice President Harris' failed leadership in this administration. The condescension and virtue signaling may play well among the liberal, coastal elites who are now circling the wagons to ensure that she is slammed in there as the Democratic Presidential nominee in August, but the American people see her failures for what they are.

People are suffering. People are dying from this crisis that Kamala Harris and President Biden have created. Kamala Harris deserves full condemnation, and I am glad to see the House take up this resolution.

I am going to sit and wait for the condemnation of the little Democratic rally that was held for Kamala Harris over at Union Station today.

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