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Our colleagues across the aisle have made clear with their tone and questions today that their primary interest is in scapegoating you and the Biden Administration for the consequences of Congress failing for decades to address either the root causes of immigration at our Southern border.

As the Chair acknowledged, we didn't start at 10. We started nearly an hour late or just over an hour late because he and his Republican colleagues had prioritized a meeting with Donald Trump over a Committee hearing and presumably they received their latest marching orders to weaponize congressional power against our criminal justice system because that's what we're seeing here today. It's outrageous.

I hope you will convey my thanks to the more than 10,000 employees who you oversee and who are on the front lines of critical issues that you have been discussing.

Instead of investigating and proposing real solutions to these immigration issues, our colleagues prefer to push and sometimes create apocalyptic scenarios to scare Americans.