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On the recordJanuary 17, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my Texas colleague's resolution condemning the purposeful actions of the Biden administration and Secretary Mayorkas for turning over our Nation's security and southern border to Mexican cartels and ushering in a vast tsunami of over 10 million illegal immigrants, who are overwhelming our cities and our States. Ten million illegal immigrants have come here illegally, yet my Democratic colleagues insist the border is closed, nothing to see here. Indeed, the Biden administration has enabled a horrific new era of human slavery, forced labor, and child sex trafficking that is destroying the lives of tens of thousands of people and causing crime to escalate across America, all because they refuse to enforce our laws that are already written. This isn't about creating a whole new immigration process. This is about forcing the administration and agencies to do their jobs. Democrats admit that the President's additional funding request isn't about securing the border or national security, but it is about processing illegals faster into the country. With more than 100,000 dead Americans from Chinese-supplied and Mexican cartel-trafficked fentanyl into our country, we need to understand that we are at war. The Biden administration has gleefully brought this misery and destruction to the American people. The first job of the Federal Government is to protect our rights and protect our homeland.…
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Beth Van Duyne
Republican · Texas

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