Strongly Condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris's, Failure to Secure the United States Border

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Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H. Res. 1371, and I stand before you for the fourth time requesting that my State's former attorney general, former U.S. Senator, and now Vice President and candidate for President come to the border.

Mr. Speaker, the other side will tell you she wasn't a border czar. I am going to tell you they didn't say she didn't have the border responsibility given to her by the President and dealing with the root causes, so to speak, when it happened. They are now revising history. You can't unring the bell. She was assigned it. She said she was going to do it, and she didn't come to the border.

I represent the district that has the most border crossings in America over the last two quarters. We had over 250,000 encounters just in the last year. Most importantly, 90 percent of the over 52,000 of what my colleagues call special interest aliens crossing the border since October 2023 entered from my district.

These are Chinese. These are Russians. These are people who have come from countries where we cannot verify and cannot return.

They are not just being encountered, but they are being brought into the country. They are being sent to New York. They are staying where they want to stay and doing what they want to do.

That is what this administration has done for 4 years. In 4 years, our country has absorbed 10 million or more people as a result. Some were get-aways, 500,000 at a crack, per year. Some simply presented themselves and were automatically allowed in.

This administration has not used the tools they claim to use. Now, in an election year, they want to unclaim their border czar, and they want to unclaim responsibility for an un-American activity, letting people into the country outside the intent of the law.

Mr. Speaker, I urge support for the resolution.

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