Andy Biggs: “I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. I will just tell you, I spent at least a couple weeks on the border this…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. I will just tell you, I spent at least a couple weeks on the border this year alone, multiple times. I have been in every facility that I can find, and I get down there as often as I can. I talk almost daily to folks who live along the border. I would get a chuckle, if it weren't so doggone serious, when I hear people say: Oh, no, there are no drugs coming across the border. We are getting them on the ocean. I will tell you one thing: In the Tucson sector, 40 percent of the drugs that come into this country from the south, they come in through the Tucson sector. You know why? There are 75 miles of open border. You have one port of entry. It has a fence, about a mile-and-a-half on each side of it. Then you have single-strand barbed wire for as far as you can see. You have four-strand barbed wire. You know what it is holding it up to? It is coming up to the bollard fencing. It has a slipknot, in case you need to get into the country. You can stand there and look at the five paths that come across. They all come right to the place where the slipknot is. I will tell you one thing: If you have a problem with an emergency declaration, then you just simply don't know what an emergency is. Mr. Speaker, 1.1 million people have surrendered or have been apprehended at the border this year. {time} 1015 Another million or so--we don't even know--have come across. We even let 1.2 million people come in legally this year.…”