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On the recordFebruary 6, 2024
Madam Speaker, we all agree that something needs to be done to fix our broken immigration system, but when it comes to doing the work, finding the solutions, House Democrats have come to the table, President Biden has come to the table, and the Senate has come to the table. Then there is the House GOP. The MAGA extremists hold up our national security priorities, our commitment to our allies, and to our own readiness, supposedly to strike a deal on immigration. The President says let's get it done and then he did. Instead of pursuing a bipartisan compromise, instead of strengthening the security of our border, advancing humane solutions, and doing their jobs, they are now impeaching the Secretary of Homeland Security without a single allegation of any impeachable crime, not one. Impeaching a cabinet member without any evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors, that is the breach of public trust here. The plan is to impeach the Secretary. Then what? Will the majority invest in Border Patrol? No. Their dream budget fires 2,000 Border Patrol agents. Just yesterday, Speaker Johnson ridiculed the men and women of Border Patrol for supporting the Senate bill saying it is probably because it would give them a fair wage. This majority's contempt for working people, even those whose mission is to carry out border security, has no bounds. This extreme MAGA majority has repeatedly rejected funding for technology that is needed to stop the flow of fentanyl. Here we are.…
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Katherine Clark
Democratic · Massachusetts

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