August Pfluger: “I thank the ranking member for yielding. I rise today to oppose the previous question so we can immediately consider…”

“I thank the ranking member for yielding. I rise today to oppose the previous question so we can immediately consider H.R. 1255 and bring forward my good friend Mr. Guest's resolution that will support the brave men and women in the U.S. Border Patrol. I think it is the right time to be talking about fires, the right time to be talking about not only fires in the literal sense of the fires that have affected my district, but, also, fires in the figurative sense that I believe our President has led us into, especially when it comes to the fires that are going on at our border. In the figurative sense, if you were there last year as I was under the bridge in Del Rio--and I wish that more of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would actually join us to see those ``fires'' that are going on every single day with the thousands, the hundreds of thousands of people that are crossing illegally. The administration's policies have been a complete failure at every single turn: the illicit drugs that are flowing into our country; the over 100,000 people who have died needlessly as a result of fentanyl; the known and suspected terrorists that have gotten into our country. I believe the number that has been published by the administration is at 56, though it only took a handful to orchestrate the events of 9/11. I spent the day talking to the National Narcotics Officers Association.…”