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Andy Biggs: When you think about it, in 2018 we swore in 830,000 new U.S. citizens. In 2019 it was about 800,000. That is kind of…

On the recordOctober 21, 2021
When you think about it, in 2018 we swore in 830,000 new U.S. citizens. In 2019 it was about 800,000. That is kind of where it sits every year. I had a young man who worked for me; his family were immigrants from Mexico. Thirteen years it took for them to get citizenship--13 years. And if they would have crossed the border illegally with the current Democrat plan, they would have gotten amnesty. Mr. Speaker, think about that. Good friends of ours, our neighbors, same situation, 12, 14 years to get citizenship. And do you know what, Mr. Speaker? I have to get back to this caravan that is coming up. Mr. Speaker, what do you think 95,000 people will do to a town of Del Rio's size, which I think is 30,000, 36,000, something like that; or Yuma which is a town the size of 80,000; or how about the town of Douglass; or Naco, about 3,000; or Douglass, about 15,000? What happens when they come in there? We don't have facilities. They get processed and released. That is what happens.
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Andy Biggs
Republican · Arizona
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Oct 21, 2021

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