Let's be clear. We are here today because Joe Biden opened his mouth. When Joe Biden took office, he had to do nothing. He had to do nothing to secure our southern border. All he had to do was keep President Trump's policies in place…

reliable, high-speed Internet is an essential part of providing world-class education, healthcare, and business opportunities to hardworking Texans across the state.

I am the son of immigrants and proud to represent the heart of Texas here in the United States Congress. For generations, my family has moved back and forth between Texas and Mexico, Mexico and Texas. People immigrate. Sometimes they are…

People are, in fact, alarmed. They need to know that the migrants coming in are from Mexico. We do have an OTM, other than Mexican, people already going back--India, China, the Philippines, El Salvador, Vietnam, Cuba, Dominican Republic…

This week, I had the honor to introduce a resolution designating May 9 as Home Front Heroes Day. This was an idea from Major John ``Lucky'' Luckadoo, a 101-year-old World War II veteran and patriot who lives in Dallas. Home Front Heroes…

It is important that we take a look at what we are doing here today. It is very obvious that we are addressing this question from the perspective of punishing families and punishing our children--yes, the children. The children are of all…

Rain can be a blessing or a curse depending on whether we get too much or too little. Like water, America can sustain our prosperity and our strength by the flow of people who want to come here, if they can come here legally. What…

America's strength has always been found in our diversity. Let's overcome the fearmongering and the anti-immigrant hysteria and do the serious, hard work of passing genuine comprehensive immigration reform. Let's turn immigration into a…

Let me say that I believe in border security at the southern border. I also believe in the fact that we are a land of immigrants, as well as a land of laws. Here we have two bad bills that don't fix the immigration and border security…

After President Trump twiddled, while thousands of Americans died of COVID, we entered a national crisis. In that emergency, the Trump administration, the Biden administration, and the States did not do enough to prevent fraud in this and…

I thank my colleague for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, because it does just that. It secures the border. I find the comments from across the aisle rich from the very Members…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Garcia of Texas moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2 to the Committee on the Judiciary. The…

Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2 does not include any serious attempt to address the root causes of immigration, and it will not make any real progress to fix our Nation's broken immigration system. Mr. Speaker, for that reason and many…

as the whole Nation knows by now, title 42, the COVID-19 public health laws used by the Border Patrol to expel people at the southern border, will expire at midnight tonight. At our border communities, in the 1,200 miles of our border with…

We are here today because of the abject failure of the administration to do its fundamental duty to protect the United States. We have a wide open border, empowering cartels, empowering China to the detriment of American citizens and to…

We have got to cut and we have got to grow.

Rail is far and away the most efficient, cost effective, and safest way to move these critical products over long distances.

I urge support for the resolution, as amended. The material previously referred to by Ms. Scanlon is as follows: An Amendment to H. Res. 383 Offered By Ms. Scanlon of Pennsylvania At the end of the resolution, add the following: Sec. 3…