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On the recordMay 11, 2023
I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let me just say a few things. My friends on the other side of the aisle talk about this bill being inhumane. Really? Is it humane under this administration to stuff 40 migrants in an 18- wheeler to die from heat and suffocation in my home State of Texas? Is it humane for the cartels to rape and traffic little girls? Is it humane to kill 100,000 young people in this country from the poison of fentanyl? Is it humane, Mr. Speaker, to send children to stash houses in the United States to become sex slaves and child labor slaves that even Child Protective Services would find criminal? That is what this administration has done. Susan Rice, our domestic policy adviser, is quoted in The New York Times as saying that she ``vented in a note she scribbled on a memo detailing the position of advocates, who believed a pandemic-era border closure was compelling parents to send unaccompanied children, sometimes called UCs.'' In other words, what was happening because of the change of policy by the Biden administration was that parents were compelled to send their children by themselves in the hands of the cartels, the traffickers, and the human smugglers. {time} 1415 What did Ms. Susan Rice, Mr. Biden's domestic policy adviser, say? ``This is BS,'' she wrote, according to a copy of the memo reviewed by the Times.…
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Gregory Meeks
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