Steve Scalise: “I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. To respond to my friend Mr. Newhouse's question, first, I thank him for his…”

“I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. To respond to my friend Mr. Newhouse's question, first, I thank him for his unwavering support for American agriculture. The industry is lucky to have such a champion. He has been very vocal in addressing some of the questions. I also thank him for working with us on those questions. I know he has those concerns, which he brought up, but I am glad that we have been able to work through many of those. As majority leader, I can commit that we will continue to work with Mr. Newhouse on legislation to address the workforce needs of our agriculture industry. Mr. Speaker, we have a crisis at our Nation's border. That is why we are bringing the Secure the Border Act to the floor today. It is why the President and Secretary Mayorkas should be doing everything in their power to stop the surge that we are seeing today--maybe 10,000 people coming across illegally. That is something that Secretary Mayorkas says is not an open border. I would hate to see his description of an open border if 10,000 people coming across in 1 day is not. They are derelict in their duty because they have opened up the border to the tune of over 5 million people who have come into our country. That is more than my home State of Louisiana who have come into our country illegally just in the last 2 years that Joe Biden has been President. We have asked where they are going.…”