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On the recordMarch 12, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule to allow consideration of H. Res. 1065, denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies. Every day we see a new horror story in the news, a new headline about some violent crime committed by an illegal alien: 22-year-old nursing student, Laken Riley, brutally murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant; Travis Wolf, one day away from celebrating his 12th birthday, killed by an illegal immigrant driving the wrong way; 16- year-old Texas teen, Lizbeth Medina, stabbed to death by an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a criminal background. Laken Riley, Travis Wolf, and Lizbeth Medina should still be here today. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is preventable. Every murder, every rape, every robbery is preventable. Criminal violence is the current outcome that we are seeing every day due to Biden's open-border policies. What about the risk of terrorism? In my 25 years in the Army, if I learned anything, it is that evil still stalks the world. We are importing part of that evil to the United States today. We have seen an escalation of the horrors inflicted on American families by the invasion on our southern border. How many horrific headlines must we endure before Biden closes the border and stops the carnage against Americans? Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, let me just say to the gentleman from Kentucky, we have acknowledged the problem.…
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Keith Self
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