On the recordFebruary 2, 2022
it was just a couple weeks ago that President Biden asked the Nation--he asked Republicans: What are Republicans for? I want to make it clear tonight that I am for border security. I am for law and order. I have been to the border three times in the past 4 to 5 years, and what I saw there was a crisis. And if I could, I just want to paint just for a minute what that crisis looks like. Having been overseas doing medical mission work, I think I know a humanitarian, a health crisis when I see it, and this was a humanitarian crisis, a health crisis--thousands of people sleeping underneath a bridge. They just traveled across Mexico for days, maybe weeks, maybe months. And as a physician, I looked out there, and what did I see? I saw people who were dehydrated, malnourishment, dehydration from diarrhea, from dysentery, scabies, tuberculosis. The Border Patrol was overwhelmed. The doctors were overwhelmed, the nurses, the dentists--everybody was overwhelmed. That is what I would call a humanitarian crisis. One of the biggest humanitarian crises going on, though, is human trafficking. As an obstetrician/gynecologist in Kansas, believe it or not, we would have to take care of young women who had been abused from human trafficking. Maybe they had chlamydia, maybe they were having a miscarriage, but I am just shocked at the amount of human trafficking going on across the border. In fiscal year 2021, 145,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended at the southern border.…
