On the recordMarch 20, 2024
I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding to me. I appreciate him getting this time on the floor for us to address such a pressing matter as the national security of the United States and the well-being of her citizens. The truth of the matter is, the national security of the United States and the well-being of her citizens in terms of safety and security is not well. We are in danger in our country, on our streets, in our homes from people who are being let into the United States under the not just misguided but purposeful policies of radical progressive Democrats led by Joe Biden and as exemplified by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle in this body and in the Senate purposely releasing people in the United States they know to be a danger to our people. They are using parole policies and asylum policies that we put in place out of the goodness of our heart to help people around the world, they are using those very narrow exceptions to the rules that secure our border to release thousands of people without vetting them or, frankly, without even caring, into the United States. The result has been the murder, death, rape, assault of American citizens. My friend from Georgia mentions Laken Riley. I hate to politicize one family's devastation in the last month.…





