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Clay Higgins

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Clay Higgins is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district since January 3, 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Higgins has focused on issues such as law enforcement, public safety, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. He is known for his strong stance on combating violent political rhetoric and has called for stricter regulations on social media platforms regarding hate speech and threats of violence.

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Mar 20, 2024

These are the words of the Biden administration.

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Mar 20, 2024

The probability of release is just as assured as for those flying into airports.

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Mar 20, 2024

I appreciate the opportunity to address the disaster at our southern border. The grief that has been brought upon the American people in the past 3 years is unspeakable. It was brought on strictly by policy change. It is the exact same…

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Mar 20, 2024

This was how you try to get to a 'yes,' America. The answer is, yes, illegal aliens are being pulled from the cartel pipeline at DHS-established Regional Processing Centers in Central and South America and flown directly into the interior…

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Mar 20, 2024

Thus we have shifted. So it's where a sovereign nation exercises its authority upon sovereign soil, would you say, like our embassies--our embassies across the world are considered our sovereign soil, are they not?

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Mar 20, 2024

DHS continues to fail in its basic homeland security mission: to secure the border.

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Mar 20, 2024

This is an abuse of parole by design.

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Mar 20, 2024

They continue to make the U.S. Government the logistics arm of the international drug cartels.

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Mar 20, 2024

We know that the process is inadequate.

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Mar 20, 2024

Secretary Mayorkas has taken his ill-conceived interpretation of parole and has perverted it to accelerate the mass entry of aliens.

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Mar 20, 2024

A sovereign border in the United States, and for any country, is critical under laws to ensure--it is the responsibility of the country to ensure--

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Mar 11, 2024

But as an American, call us crazy, we would think that a security fee might be used for security.

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Mar 11, 2024

But this money is being diverted. At some point in this town, a decision was made, let's just take that money from its intended purpose and move it over here.

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Feb 28, 2024

There's a rare moment when I'm going to commend the Biden administration.

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Feb 28, 2024

Congress has a responsibility to observe carefully and evaluate the actions of our Executive branch and to condemn Executive actions that we believe weaken national security or injure our country.

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Feb 28, 2024

We are in support of risk-based inspections. You can count on my office to be at the Coast Guard's avail.

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Feb 15, 2024

I thank my friend from Arizona for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we truly live in an interesting time in our country when Americans watch this and they see two lone conservative Republicans, two members of the House Freedom Caucus, standing in an…

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Feb 14, 2024

If you cannot secure the border, if you are going to wave in millions and millions and millions of migrants... then you have totally failed the American people.

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Feb 14, 2024

Illegals have been released into our country... Many of them do indeed have nefarious intent.

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Feb 14, 2024

We have got 300,000 Americans dead from opioid overdose in the last 3 years. It is insane.

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Feb 14, 2024

Let me say the quiet part out loud for America: Pay attention. This is how this town works.

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Feb 6, 2024

I respect my colleagues across the aisle who have voiced their opposition. It is important that we clarify the legacy that some of us would condemn by impeaching the Secretary responsible for this legacy; and, by contrast, the legacy that…

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Jan 31, 2024

If U.S. LNG replaced international coal use by 2030, it would have the equivalent climate impact of electrifying every vehicle in the United States, installing rooftop solar on every U.S. home, and doubling our current wind capacity.

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