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Andy Biggs: I urge my colleagues to join me in calling upon our leadership to do something that I think is critical. What is it that…

On the recordFebruary 15, 2024
I urge my colleagues to join me in calling upon our leadership to do something that I think is critical. What is it that we need? We need the leverage to get enforcement, not the leverage to enact policy. I believe this is a lawless administration. They are not going to enforce the policies that we invoke. They instead will go around them. For instance, H.R. 2. When we go to H.R. 2, a lot of my colleagues say we need to stick H.R. 2 on everything. Well, the problem with sticking H.R. 2 on anything is, even if H.R. 2 passes--it is a great law, by the way. I have written most of the provisions in that H.R. 2 one time or another, introduced those one time or another. It is a good law. I am the cosponsor of that bill. It takes care of a lot of issues, whether it is on asylum, whether it is on Flores, whether it is on any of these other technical issues we have. Guess what? Even if it becomes law, I believe that the administration will paper over it, and they will go around the law. They will go around the law because they want an open border. That is what they want. I thought I would share with you just a couple of other, I think, interesting anecdotes. I got a call recently from a friend of mine down on the border. He is working in the area of the Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation. The Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation has 62 linear miles on the border between Arizona and Mexico.…
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Feb 15, 2024

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