Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we recently learned that fiscal year 2023 set a new record for the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border--the third recordbreaking year of illegal immigration under the Biden administration. First, fiscal year 2021 set an alltime record. Then, fiscal year 2022 broke that record. And, now, fiscal 2023 has broken that record. In other words, we have had 3 straight years of the Biden border crisis getting worse and worse and worse. Since the President took office, more than 6.2 million individuals have been caught attempting to illegally cross our southern border--6.2 million. If every one of those individuals lived in one city, it would be the second largest in the country. I don't need to tell anyone that the kind of unchecked illegal immigration we are experiencing represents a serious security threat. The Department of Homeland Security recently noted in its 2024 threat assessment: Terrorists and criminal actors may exploit the elevated flow [of migration] and increasingly complex security environment to enter the United States. And by all indications, bad actors are, in fact, taking advantage of the chaos at the border to try and enter the United States. During fiscal year 2023 alone, 169 individuals on the Terrorist Watchlist were caught attempting to illegally cross our southern border--169 on the Terrorist Watchlist. Those are the ones they apprehended. That is more than in the previous 6 years combined.…”