Andy Biggs: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is my pleasure to join him in this Special Order to talk about one of the most…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is my pleasure to join him in this Special Order to talk about one of the most important existential crises that we face in the country today, and that is our border crisis. Let's rephrase that. It is the Biden border crisis. So we have 9 sectors along the southwest border, each one 100 to 150 miles wide and they cover many tens of thousands of miles into the interior. The Tucson sector, which is now the hot spot in the last 5 months, has had more than 312,000 encounters. In that small area, you have more than 2,000 a day who are being interdicted, and those are the people who surrender. It might be one of the most remote border areas on the southwest border on the Tohono O'odham Reservation at the San Miguel gate. It might be in Lukeville where, if you were paying attention, Bill Melugin sent to the world video footage from just a few days ago where the cartels had cut a hole in the fence and dozens and dozens of illegal aliens were coming in through that hole. That is what is happening. What are the numbers? Those are the numbers. The numbers reach into the millions every year. {time} 1800 That doesn't include the got-aways, both known and unknown. What countries are they coming from? I remember well being down in Yuma, and 25 men of military age came across. I said: Where are you from? Well, we are from Russia. We got the Russian interpreter on the phone, those of us from Congress.…”