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On the recordAugust 6, 2022
in fiscal year 2021, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 12,000 illegal aliens with aggravated felony convictions. An alltime record number of illegal border crossers entered our country last year. This is an unprecedented national security crisis. Before we spend billions of dollars on Green New Deal programs, the Department should first do its core job of securing the homeland. This same policy was adopted 53 to 46 during the budget resolution process last August, with four of my Democratic colleagues joining me. Now, 1 year later, we have a worse crisis and an opportunity to provide real funding to protect our citizens from individuals who endanger our communities. I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will maintain their previous support for this commonsense approach to fund law enforcement and put public safety and national security over partisan politics. We have a chance to address this in a real manner right now. Solving a major crisis like this is worth taking a little more time. I urge my colleagues to support this motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.
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Bill Hagerty
Republican · Tennessee

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