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On the recordSeptember 29, 2021
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, please inform the White House that there is a crisis along our southern border. That is why defeating the previous question is so important, so we can take up this amendment. More than 1 billion undocumented immigrants crossed the southern border this year, including hundreds of thousands in the last several months. It is the highest level in years. In the most recent accounting, over 15,000 illegal immigrants, the majority originating from the country of Haiti, were camped under a bridge in Del Rio. They had no food. They had no water. They had no sanitation. They had no shelter. The Biden administration admitted in 12,000 of these migrants and Secretary Mayorkas admitted that not a single one was vaccinated or tested for the coronavirus. It is unconscionable that thousands of migrants continue to stream across our border without being tested while the Biden administration implements mandates for masks and mandates for vaccines for American citizens. But this not only contradicts the guidance from our public health authorities, but it puts American citizens at risk and their communities in danger.…

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