But doggone it, it should not be mandated by a tyrannical government. And this is the tip of the spear on a fascist-style government, in my opinion.

When you say that, I am reminded of the surge of 2019. That surge in 2019 happened. I know you went down to the border multiple times.

Amen. People say, looking around, they get so depressed and frustrated when they see the horrible and horrific impacts of the policies coming out of this administration, not the least of which is the curtailing of their freedoms.

The gentleman from Texas talks and reminds us of all of this, and we are seeing it. Like my friend, I keep a folder in my computer of story after story of people fighting back saying: No. We are not going to kowtow; we are not going to bow…

That is exactly right. Think about this, too. It is inhumane, right, because we entice people to come here, and we know that the cartels, they control. I can't emphasize this enough. I was startled when I heard this. The cartels control…

That is correct. We have seen it all along the border, whether it is Arizona, Texas, the New Mexico boot, California. The heat is so great, except for right there at San Diego, but it is even hot there. When it gets 120 degrees in the…

It was organized. It was organized. Down in southern Mexico right now, you have a group of 95,000-plus forming up, mostly Haitians forming up, waiting. They have announced that this Sunday is their departure date. We think a good share is…

I agree with you 100 percent. If they would enforce our law, we wouldn't need to be standing here. We had the Attorney General today come in.

We asked him some pointed questions. How many prosecutions? Is it still illegal? Yes, it is still illegal to come into the country. Are you prosecuting anybody? Well, I suspect the answer is, no, they are not prosecuting anybody, but they…

I went down to the border multiple times. I took codels down to the border so folks could see how bad it was. That was my President.

You know what? He was trying to enact policies to stop that. They brought lawsuits to prevent stopping that. Now that their administration has basically adopted an open borders policy, a dangerous policy for the people coming across, a…

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…