They are recruiting youth because they are not going to be prosecuted as adults. They are going to get off easier.

Guess what is happening, Mr. Speaker? The mayor there is trying to put pressure on them. Guess what, Mr. Speaker? Indiana cities are offering jobs to those Chicago police officers. If they come here, we are not going to mandate that.

You know what? He was trying to enact policies to stop that. They brought lawsuits to prevent stopping that. Now that their administration has basically adopted an open borders policy, a dangerous policy for the people coming across, a…

I agree with you 100 percent. If they would enforce our law, we wouldn't need to be standing here. We had the Attorney General today come in.

It was organized. It was organized. Down in southern Mexico right now, you have a group of 95,000-plus forming up, mostly Haitians forming up, waiting. They have announced that this Sunday is their departure date. We think a good share is…

We asked him some pointed questions. How many prosecutions? Is it still illegal? Yes, it is still illegal to come into the country. Are you prosecuting anybody? Well, I suspect the answer is, no, they are not prosecuting anybody, but they…

There are several. Title 42 came along a little bit later, though. The most effective were the remain in Mexico policy and the agreements with the Northern Triangle states. There were no incentives in these care packages that came along of…

That is correct. We have seen it all along the border, whether it is Arizona, Texas, the New Mexico boot, California. The heat is so great, except for right there at San Diego, but it is even hot there. When it gets 120 degrees in the…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman (Mr. Babin), my colleague on the House Border Security Caucus. Mr. Speaker, you have heard a lot about numbers today. I want to just tell you a little bit about some of the faces and individuals. I have…

I went down to the border multiple times. I took codels down to the border so folks could see how bad it was. That was my President.

Madam Speaker, I promise I am not trying to go for the record of the most boring for half an hour, but if I make it, bless us all. Madam Speaker, over the next half hour, I am going to try to walk through--and a lot of this is just sort of…

Madam President, I was necessarily absent, but had I been present would have voted yes on rollcall vote No. 414, on the confirmation of Gustavo A. Gelpi, of Puerto Rico, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 198, nays 223, not…

Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 314 and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 315. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Adams (Brown) Armstrong (Meuser) Auchincloss (Clark (MA))…

Mr. President, Senator Mark Kelly and I have the distinct privilege of honoring the outstanding men and women of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence at Fort Huachuca, AZ. On October 6, 2021, MG Anthony G. Hale, Commanding…

Mr. President, on October 4, 2021, I missed the vote No. 403 on confirmation of Jonathan Meyer to be General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security. Had I been in attendance, I would have voted yes on his confirmation…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and say goodbye to my friend and my brother, Sergeant Major Dan Altieri. We served together in Iraq. I have one minute to speak about a man who gave thousands of marines years of their life back, one…

Madam Speaker, had I been present, I would have noted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 311 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 312. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Armstrong (Timmons) Babin (Arrington) Frankel, Lois (Clark…