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Michael Jonathan Cloud is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 27th congressional district since June 21, 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Cloud has focused on issues such as border security, economic development, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies that support small businesses and promote job growth in his district. Cloud previously served in the Texas House of Representatives before his election to Congress.
And I do want to echo what Mr. Guest said about we have nothing but appreciation for the members of CBP and appreciation for the understanding and--that we need to get you the resources that you need to do your job, and you are in a very…
All of this part, of course, in proper context that there is a right way to come to our country in an illegal way, and every illegal entry is dollars to a cartel.
We know they hoarded PPP, they silenced the centers, they blocked investigations into the Wuhan Lab.
We are incredibly frustrated. And I don't want you to feel when you leave here that we are intentionally taking our frustration out on you.
We know it is not feasible to build a wall from sea to shining sea, that we are not going to build a wall from RGV to San Diego.
And of course that is drug trafficking as well that is coming in, and we have, you know, had drugs wash up on our shore, you know, in our district a number of times.
One of my major concerns is just our shipbuilding capacity here in the United States and our ability to keep pace.
I mean, what we are seeing is that at an administration shift we had 70 percent drop roughly with no change roughly in funding and actually a slight bump-up in manpower.
It seems to me that the hang-up is on the word 'all,' in the sense, like, until we get that number to zero, we will never have--
I will fight as hard as I can as a member of this committee to make sure that we are hiring new agents.
We shouldn't be creating exclusions or exceptions or creating--redefine parole and all these different kind of things, that we need to do what the law says and not make exceptions to what the law says.
Biden's border budget request takes the money that we have already allocated and moves it to other directions.
Biden issued an executive order directing all Federal agencies to develop a voter registration and voter education plan, to be submitted to the White House.
As the Article I branch, our job is to make the law. Your job is to execute the law.
You find these loopholes, and you are missing the objective, the overall objective of securing the border by finding these little legal loopholes to get out of things.
We write the check to secure the border and the Biden administration gets it and they say: Yay, more money for human trafficking operations.
We have more illegal entries. We have terrorists coming across our border. And the fentanyl coming across our border has increased.
Last year we were told that we were going to plus up the budget, and because of it, we would be able to secure our border.
there has been a lot of non-transparency in delivering on those plans when it comes to FOIA requests.
There has been a lot of non-transparency in delivering on those plans when it comes to FOIA requests.
You are taking what we have already authorized, what we have already appropriated for border wall construction, and you are wanting to rescind that and use it for other purposes. Isn't that correct?
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