Ted Budd: “in order to be a strong nation, we have to have strong borders, and right now we don't have that. We haven't had that…”

“in order to be a strong nation, we have to have strong borders, and right now we don't have that. We haven't had that for 3\1/2\ years. In fact, we are in the middle of the worst border crisis in American history. This is a crisis of President Biden's own making. Starting on his first day in office, he has intentionally and repeatedly undermined security at the southern border. During his first 100 days in office, President Biden took 94 Executive actions to open the border, and, 3\1/ 2\ years later, nearly 10 million illegal aliens have entered our country. Now, those 10 million include an unknown number of dangerous individuals, hundreds on the Terrorism Watch List, countless transnational cartel members, drug smugglers, and human traffickers. It is a laundry list of evil. And perhaps the worst consequences that we have seen over the past 3\1/2\ years are the tragedies: the innocent men and women taken from their families by an illegal alien who should have never been here in the first place. So imagine being a mother or a father. You send your daughter off to college. You are beaming with pride, but you are also a little heartsick that they are going to be out there on their own. Then, a few months later, you get the worst call in your life. And that is the reality for the family of Laken Riley. Or another situation: Let's imagine that your uncle is a sheriff's deputy. You couldn't be prouder of him.…”