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On the recordOctober 21, 2021
There are several. Title 42 came along a little bit later, though. The most effective were the remain in Mexico policy and the agreements with the Northern Triangle states. There were no incentives in these care packages that came along of $1,400 every time anybody came in illegally. He started building the fence. He stopped the catch and release. He ramped up the due process speed. He tried to get those folks with the false asylum claims in, get them due process, and get them removed. He was actually removing people who had removal orders. We got 1.2 million people who had due process with removal orders in this country today, and this administration has told the ICE officers: Don't go out and find them. Don't enforce those removals. {time} 1815 Those policies were actually working, and title 42 when that came in, that finished it off. But do you know what you had most of all, Mr. Speaker? You had a President who said: Do not come, you are not welcome.
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Andy Biggs
Republican · Arizona

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