Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026

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Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. McClintock for yielding time.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my bill, the Deporting Fraudsters Act. As Mr. Harris just said earlier, estimates show that between $233 billion and $521 billion is lost to fraud each year. These funds are taxpayer dollars from American workers, intended to go to Americans who need help getting back on their feet, not to illegal alien fraudsters who shouldn't even be in our country to begin with.

The massive fraud we have seen in Minnesota and other places around the country should be a no-brainer. If a person is not an American citizen while defrauding the American people, they should not be able to walk freely in this country.

The story that inspired this bill originally came from California where five foreign nationals were apprehended with over 160 fraudulent SNAP cards on them. These were non-Americans stealing from the most vulnerable among us. It needs to end.

Democrats have used American taxpayer dollars to attract and retain an electoral majority for too long. To my Democratic colleagues, the bill before us is a binary choice. Do they support the American people, or do they support illegal immigrants who steal American tax dollars?

Failing to support this bill is betraying the Americans whose interests Democrats claim to represent. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

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Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Raskin for the question.

Mr. Speaker, it was not part of the original text. It was suggested in Committee. This was in the Judiciary Committee. I wasn't a party to those conversations. I was consulted about the decision to add that, and I fully supported it.

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Mr. TAYLOR. I am not sure I got what you said there. It requires a conviction unless there is an admission.

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Mr. TAYLOR. In looking back at that, it is probably something I should have included in the original text. If the person is going to admit it, they probably should be deported, obviously, if they are admitting it.

It is something that is, honestly, apparently commonly occurring at the border as people come in.

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Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, in this situation my read of the bill is an un-withdrawn admission is the same as a guilty verdict. This is a person who has admitted they have broken the law. Therefore, they sit in the same position as someone who has been convicted of it, if they are not even going to say: Oh, no, actually I didn't break the law. They admitted it. They are deportable.

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