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On the recordJuly 24, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, if you want to talk about being ashamed, let's talk about who should be ashamed. It is Biden and Harris. They have been a complete disaster, especially with the southern border. Excuse me for being so audacious as to bring facts and figures to a debate, but I guess I have to apologize for bringing more facts and figures to a debate. Let's go through a few of them. The Biden-Harris administration has failed to remove 99.7 percent of illegal immigrants released in the United States. Here is another stat: In June, there were 130,419 illegal immigrant encounters at our southern border. This is roughly 4,300 daily encounters, which is--wait for this--four times more than the definition of a crisis that was set by Obama's own DHS Secretary Johnson, who said in 2019 that more than 1,000 encounters a day would overwhelm the system. That was President Obama's DHS Secretary. Do you want to talk about more facts and figures? In May 2024, Committee on Homeland Security Republicans released documents showing the Biden administration--wait for this--secretly flew over 400,000 illegal immigrants into our country. Harris still has visited our southern border only once since she became border czar. It took her a total of 93 days to make a token trip to El Paso, which is 800 miles from the sector experiencing the worst numbers.…
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Guy Reschenthaler
Republican · Pennsylvania

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