I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Perry The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

I'm disappointed to not hear you call it a crisis truly because I think that's what we have before us.

No one should have their choices limited by Federal bureaucrats. In fact, these bureaucrats should not have the ability to implement rules like this at all without congressional approval. This amendment shows the clear difference in vision…

It's important for us to have that information so that we can move forward.

We are allowing this crisis to make these cartels rich to the tune of billions of dollars.

When we look at the budget that President Biden put forward, it's clear that this Administration is not afraid of calling out a crisis when they believe they see one.

When we see how much is coming over the border, I mentioned it and it's already been mentioned here by the Chair, but we've lost over 100,000 people to drug overdoses and 70,000 of those, as you mentioned yourself, are attributed to…

the President announced that Title 42 will end on May 11th and the department's own projections, as we've discussed here today, are that encounters will double from today's level to as many as 12,000 encounters daily.

We must do better. Our border is not secure and we owe it to the citizens of this nation.

We owe it to the citizens of this nation. We owe it to the people who are being trafficked by these drug cartels to take back control.

We owe it to the citizens of this nation. We owe it to the people who are being trafficked by these drug cartels to take back control.

I cannot emphasize enough that we must make real and lasting impacts so that we can stop the cartels, stop the manufacturers of precursors and stop the senseless deaths of Americans due to fentanyl.

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.

Despite the legal requirement to detain migrants facing removal, yet again President Biden's budget requests fewer resources for detention beds and alternatives to detention.

I have traveled to the border three times in just the first 2 months of my time here in the Senate and I can tell you that reducing resources for border security is not the way to go.

The department has failed to provide responses to a number of requests from this committee.

President Biden's budget request for Customs and Border Protection is a decrease of $1.3 billion and his plan has as many gaps in it as the wall that this Administration refuses to finish.

I have seen little pairs of shoes at the border and know that those children have a story.