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On the recordJune 16, 2021
I thank Captain Higgins for those impassioned words. He is exactly right. One of the things that is so heartbreaking, frustrating, unconscionable about this is we can solve this crisis at the border pretty simply. All we need the White House to do is reimplement the Trump-era policies because that increased border security, it discouraged illegal immigration and it reinstituted law and order, and we can do that, but they won't. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), who represents Georgia's First Congressional District.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana
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Jun 16, 2021

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