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

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Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, as I walked in here, all I heard was what I hear in my committee, constant criminalizing of immigrant communities.

Let me tell you, I rise in strong opposition to H. Res. 1371.

What this is, is more lies, more misrepresentations, and more inaccuracies.

When the majority cannot pass bills, what do they do? They introduce blatantly political resolutions that consistently target powerful women of color.

Mr. Speaker, you can always tell when we are getting closer to an election because these extreme members of the Republican Party literally turn up the volume on their xenophobia, and they are doing it again with H.R. 1371.

They lie about immigration and public safety. When you look at studies, it shows that immigration is actually associated with lower crime rates.

They fearmonger, they dehumanize, while they are also quoting Scripture, which is kind of hypocritical, and they scapegoat asylum seekers, people who, just like my parents, want to seek a life of dignity and hope and who have faithfully contributed to their community and to our collective economy.

They are willing to vilify and misrepresent the sitting Vice President of the United States for her diplomatic work to address the root cause of migration from Central America.

If my Republican colleagues actually cared about immigration or border security, they would address the conditions that drive people to the southern border. They would pass spending bills and invest in foreign humanitarian assistance and international development programs and would participate in cooperative efforts to realize a world where people can build the life they want back at home. They have done none of that.

Just this week, I didn't see any of my Republican colleagues at my Congressional Caucus on Global Migration. Instead, they want us to waste our time on legislative gimmicks and sham resolutions to score cheap political points. It is enough. Seriously, enough.

We have been here. We have done this. It is deja vu. It is so tired.

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Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, they should shelve their mass deportation BS; I am so tired of it.

Let's get to solutions. We should be talking about appropriations. We should be talking about how we make sure that things are working for the American people, instead of criminalizing people that are helping us with our economy.

Mr. Speaker, let's vote ``no'' on H. Res. 1371 and let's be done with this waste of time.

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