Biden-Harris Administration Failures At the Southern Border
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Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend, Representative Biggs, for hosting tonight's Special Order hour, along with my good friend Brian Babin, as well, talking about the devastating impact the crisis at our southern border is causing our country.
Every State is a border State. Obviously, we have lost a loved one in Georgia.
I got a text, interestingly enough, today from a small rural town in my district that basically they said it is a Third World country here. This is in rural America. She said that she doesn't mean to complain, but they can't even go to the grocery store.
I am sure it has been said here many times tonight: Over the past 4 years, the Biden-Harris administration has had an open-border policy. When those candidates, when they were running for President, raised their hands and said that we would give away free healthcare--every single one of them raised their hand. We should have known then what was going to happen.
I don't understand why the American people weren't alerted by that because I have been on mission trips to these countries. I have tried to help these people in their home country with medical, buildings, and other things. They have no healthcare.
Since the Biden-Harris administration took office, and with Kamala Harris as border czar, there have been over 10 million illegal immigrant encounters and roughly 2 million known got-aways. Got-aways are here for a different reason. It is not good.
I can't tell you, for the Committee on Energy and Commerce, how many hearings we have had dealing with fentanyl, like a mom losing a child to fentanyl. It is the leading cause of death of men between ages 14 and 40 in our country. How can we continue to allow this?
Worsening the already dire situation, this administration has failed to remove 99.7 percent of illegal immigrants released into the United States, making every community and every State a border State.
I have been to the border multiple times, and what I have witnessed is this: It is the most inhumane process I have ever witnessed. It is disgusting that children are pinned up like animals. I asked the Border Patrol where these people get the money to pay the cartels, and I understand the cartels, Mr. Speaker, are making $32 million a week down there. I asked how they would pay for this. They said that they don't have the money. I asked what guarantees payment when they get here.
This is what we are allowing. This administration is allowing this. It is the most horrible thing I have ever heard. They are indentured servants in the beacon of freedom, indentured slaves to the cartels. Guess what? If those cartels don't get paid, they start killing off their family members. How disgusting.
How can this administration be allowed to continue this barbaric policy? They could put an end to it. I don't know why the Vice President on the campaign trail hasn't said she is going to stop this tomorrow. They can do it.
I saw and witnessed them coming across in a boat, and I said: Why don't you all stop the boat?
They said: You see those children? If we stop that boat, they will start throwing their children in the river.
How can we allow this, America? Like I said, it is barbaric. These are war criminals.
We lost a National Guard soldier trying to save someone from drowning. He drowned trying to save them in that river.
Folks, I could be here a long time, but enough is enough. The House has taken action by passing the most comprehensive border security bill in the history of the United States Congress, H.R. 2. The Senate has not taken up that bill.
We must secure this border. Call your Senators. Demand that they stop these horrible crimes we are seeing committed at this border.
Let me tell you something else that nobody's talking about. We have the most generous legal immigration system in the world. Why don't we talk about improving that system bipartisanly? We should be recruiting the best and the brightest into this country, the most skilled. One million people per year are legally allowed to apply for citizenship in this country and go through the process. We also have a million student visas.
We need to fix this problem and stop this inhumane and really just barbaric activity that this administration is carrying on with right now. It is disastrous.
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