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On the recordJanuary 11, 2024
Well, Mr. Biggs of Texas, I am glad you brought that up. Now, on my trip home, I went to the airport in San Antonio. It was early in the morning. People are around, but, you know, we know what to look for because we have heard the stories. There is a brown envelope, and people are carrying it. Now, you know, you either have your app on your phone--not the CBP One app, but the app for the airline you are flying--so you get your boarding pass or you are carrying a physical boarding pass, and it says, you know, zone one, whatever, right, to tell you when you are boarding. People not from this country that have never been on an airplane before don't know what any of that is. They want to get to the next--and I happened to be going to Charlotte, South Carolina, for my connection to get back home to the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I am sitting listening to the announcements, and I am going to show up in line at the appropriate time. But the folks that don't understand English and don't know what a boarding pass is, they just all go to the front of the line. These people that work for the airlines, they are trying to hold back this horde of people that just want to get in the airplane. Now, it is one thing--Mr. Biggs, you speak Spanish. My mother is Colombian, so I know a little bit; you know, I can make my way through it.…
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania

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