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On the recordMarch 7, 2024
Mr. President, I appreciate my colleagues and their comments, and I know that Senator Hyde-Smith is also going to speak on this issue. As we have heard, the President later today is going to talk about his record, and he is going to try to sell that record to the American people. As we have heard, many of his policies are failures. This record is a broken record, and much of it, just as my colleague from Texas was saying, is a record that has failed the people of our States. For 3 years, the American people have truly suffered immensely during this record of failure and broken promises. Some of the actions that President Biden has taken beginning on day one is he issued Executive order after Executive order. Let's talk about day one as we set the framework for what he will talk about tonight as his 3-year record. On day one, President Biden took actions pertaining to the border and illegal immigration, and here is what he did: He paused deportations-- paused them. That means he put up a ``halt'' sign and said: You cannot deport people who have illegally entered the country. He limited which illegal aliens could be arrested. Now, that was an action that he took. He said: Well, you can't go arrest certain groups of illegal aliens-- even though they have broken the law coming into this country. So he put those protections in place for people who had broken the law entering the country illegally.…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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