On the recordJune 28, 2024
Madam Speaker, I just got back from the U.S.- Mexico border in San Diego, and that was my sixth trip to the southern border since I have been in Congress. Communities I represent are hurting from this border crisis that has become worse than ever before under the policies of this administration. It is a national security crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and a public health crisis. My bipartisan amendment to force the Biden administration to finally create a strategy to secure every mile of southern border was added to the Homeland Security appropriations bill that was passed today. President Obama signed into law in 2016 a bill to require a northern border strategy, but no similar law exists today for our southern border. This will change that. We must secure our southern border, and I will keep fighting to get this done. ____________________
