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On the recordDecember 20, 2024
Madam President, as has been discussed by my distinguished colleagues, in May of 2022, the Mexican military forcibly shut down Vulcan Materials Company's operations. Almost a year later, military police came in--the military of our supposed ally--and they breached and seized Vulcan's port facility at gunpoint. That is right. Instead of using its armed forces to confiscate the fentanyl killing hundreds of American citizens every single day, the Mexican military, under the directive of their former President, confiscated a port rightfully owned by an American company, an Alabama company. Instead of going after the cartels, our neighbor went after law-abiding Americans. Radical leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador seized Vulcan's operations and property. Make no mistake, that action was illegal under both Mexican and international law, and it is unacceptable that Mexico's new President seems to be carrying the water for him. She said absolutely nothing except that she is going to continue Lopez Obrador's unlawful seizure of an American company and she stands with him. Time and time again over the past 4 years, bad actors across the globe have poked and prodded at the United States because they saw weakness in the White House. They saw they could do it and get away with it. When they did it without even the slightest bit of response, let alone consequences, they just kept doing it.…
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Katie Britt
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