On the recordDecember 13, 2022
I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. I oppose the EAGLE Act and encourage all Members to do the same. The Biden administration has created the absolute worst border crisis in our history, and congressional Democrats have done nothing to address it. They won't even acknowledge that there is a crisis, with the exception of the gentleman in the Chair. The crisis is real. It is having a negative impact on communities across the country, but President Biden has more important things to do than visit the border. I visit the border on a regular basis, and every time I do, I hear a similar message. First, the brave men and women of the Border Patrol are being overrun. They are tired of the administration not supporting their efforts to secure the border. Second, illegal aliens enter every day because they believe that the Biden administration is going to let everyone stay. Thirdly, our communities are running out of resources to deal with the real-world impacts of the Biden border crisis. Cities like New York City and Washington, D.C., complained when a few hundred illegal aliens were sent to their communities, but cities in Arizona are dealing with large groups of illegal aliens every day. We are now told, with title 42 expiring, that they will do direct releases into Arizona's communities because there is just simply no place to even hold them to process them. Since President Biden took office, U.S.…





