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On the recordApril 17, 2024
I thank my colleague from Utah, and I was not aware of all of those titles, but I will accept them. Madam President, if we would have had a trial--and it is a travesty we haven't. There has been great damage done to our Constitution and to this institution by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle because they didn't want the American people to see this. Now, I have described this chart--had we had a trial, this would have been the irrefutable DNA evidence that proved the crime. There is no way you can take a look at the history of illegal entry into this country and not recognize that what has happened under the Biden administration and under Secretary Mayorkas is nothing less than an utter catastrophe. Yesterday, I spent about 10, 15 minutes on the floor going through the history of the cause and effect that this chart shows. But what I really want to point out today is what the Democrats did not want us to reveal, because what this chart shows is that this was purposeful; this was willful. President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas and our Democratic colleagues here in the Congress and in the Senate, they want an open border. They caused this crisis. This didn't just happen. This was a game plan that they implemented. They aided and abetted it. All the damage, all the destruction, all the crimes that are a result of this-- they have aided and abetted it.…
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Dusty Johnson
Republican · South Dakota

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