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On the recordJune 7, 2022
As the Republican leader of the House Budget Committee, I led a group of 12 Members of Congress last week to the Rio Grande Valley to see firsthand the real cost of President Biden's disastrous immigration agenda. There were major gaps in border wall and open areas that make it easier for the Mexican cartels to make millions of dollars trafficking humans and illegal drugs over the border. And yet, we saw $350 million worth of rusted border wall materials sitting unused because of President Biden's illegal decision to freeze border wall funding. Border Patrol agents told me they are seeing 10,000 encounters each week in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone, including 174 different nationalities who have been apprehended on the southern border. The rest of the world has figured out that our border is not secure, whether the Biden administration realizes it or not. I will continue fighting to secure the border and protect families from President Biden's disastrous agenda. ____________________
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Jason Smith
Republican · Missouri

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