On the recordApril 6, 2022
Madam President, I am here today to discuss what I saw this past weekend when I took a trip to our southern border in Texas. I led a delegation of eight sheriffs and mayors from my home State of Tennessee. We went to see what is happening, what the effects of the border crisis are, and to hear from them and allow the border agents to hear from them the effects of the border crisis in our own communities in Tennessee. Our mayors and sheriffs are seeing record drug overdoses, gang violence, and other forms of criminal activity right there in Tennessee. We learned that what is really happening at our border is quite simple: Well-financed, operationally sophisticated drug cartels, with the help of the Chinese Communist Party, are exploiting our immigration policies and human economic desires to make billions of dollars from drug and human trafficking. Ignored by the Biden administration and the corporate media, this increasingly powerful criminal enterprise is expanding further into American communities. Our trip revealed two key insights. First, under Biden policies, this national security crisis is unmanageable. Second, and paradoxically, this crisis is well within the Federal Government's ability to fix. My central takeaway was this: If every American saw what we saw and heard, this would end. America wouldn't tolerate this. It is a crisis. Here is the cartels' business model: Fentanyl ingredients are shipped from China to Mexico.…
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