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Louie Gohmert: I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. I am so thrilled you are hammering this point. These are people's lives, as…

On the recordMarch 11, 2021
I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. I am so thrilled you are hammering this point. These are people's lives, as you were saying earlier. We just were having a hearing in a crime subcommittee, and an article was introduced that said there are more drugs that come in through public ports than illegally across our border. Well, my friend has been involved in enforcing the law as a State prosecutor. There is no one who can tell you how much in the way of drugs were missing, but these kids are now--there is incentive from the Biden administration to keep reusing these kids. Border patrolmen are saying--my friend may have touched on this earlier--that, actually, they are recognizing some of the kids who come in and help people to stay there, and then they will go back across the border and come with another group. {time} 1415 It is bad enough that this administration is luring people up, especially children, to their detriment, but it is even worse when they become just products to be used and thrown away. I had been standing there all hours of the night seeing the long line of people being processed and the border patrolmen were asking their questions. At the opposite end where I would go, there are people passing kids around and asking: Who is going to be the mother? Who is going to be the father? Do you want this kid? I will take the kid. Madam Speaker, you can see them. Who is going to take the kid?…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Mar 11, 2021

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