On the recordMarch 16, 2021
As we speak, at President Biden's behest, thousands of migrants are crossing our border illegally and being detained in facilities that are well over capacity. Besides the many adults, the real victims are the thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, many being sent by drug cartels to this country. These children are often used by cartels to smuggle drugs or money, and many are being sold into essential slavery with the promise of easy and safe passage to the U.S. Does the President not care about the problem of juvenile human trafficking occurring at the border? For years, Democrats and media types slammed the Trump administration for keeping kids in cages. Their righteous indignation is conspicuously absent from today's discourse, as they are now referring euphemistically in the press to the ``migrant detention centers.'' Amazingly, you have to have a negative COVID test to fly into the country, but you can be COVID-positive and enter illegally. Madam Speaker, the basic reality is this: We need to know who is in our country. We are a country of laws. ``Catch and release'' has now become a national security threat. Even CNN is calling this a crisis. I urge the Biden administration to admit this is a crisis and fix the problem it has caused. ____________________
