On the recordApril 6, 2022
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. I would like to help set the stage here just for a moment. Imagine, if you will, 100,000 people entering the country illegally and stopped on our border just in the first 2 weeks of March of this year. But because of title 42, which allows the Border Patrol agents to immediately turn people away because of communicable diseases, that is the term used in title 42, they sent 50,000 of them back away. You don't have to imagine it because that is true. That is exactly what happened. If you extrapolate that out, because you can, just looking at it from January, February, March of this year, they turned away over a quarter million people under title 42. Now, when title 42 goes away on May 23, because that is exactly what this administration wants, you will double the amount of people who are coming in just through the apprehension route. We have another record month in March. Those numbers are just out. That means that you are going to be sitting on about 300,000 to 400,000 apprehensions that you are going to be releasing right into the United States of America. What does that do? Everybody in here knows this because you have been down to the border. I have been down to the border with you. The cartels are in it to make money. As they see this opening up, more and more people getting freedom to the United States caught and released, what they will do, and what they are already doing, by the way, is they will advertise.…
