Mike McCaul

That's why for months I've been calling for more Federal resources to support border communities.

It has gotten totally out of hand. It's ridiculous.

You want to send them back.

This is that program where children who were brought here by their parents when they were little, did not even know that they were not here legally, went to school here, speak English as well as you do.

The gentleman yields. The chair recognizes Mr. Castro.

The abuse of the parole power is essentially a shell game which allows the Administration to claim that it is reducing the number of illegal crossings at the border.

The Biden Administration's intentional sabotaging of our immigration system and decimation of our borders is not just some experiment in an ivory tower with no consequences.

Today's historic border crisis is a policy crisis, not a funding crisis.

The Migrant Protection Protocols and Remain in Mexico.

Elections have consequences. This one had a really grave consequence.

I think it's well past time to get back to what worked.

And, regrettably, I believe this Administration has been derelict in its duty and its responsibility to protect the American people.

We need to push our borders out--push the borders out.

I've always said the borders are our last line of defense.

This Administration has created a criminal enterprise right now in the United States of America that will have ramifications for years to come.

By allowing aliens to enter the interior of this country freely we are signaling to them come on in, we're open for business.

We need to turn off the pull factor, the magnet driving this, that will also shut down the cartels.

They tell me very bluntly the rescission of this policy had a direct cause and effect on the chaos at the border.

One of the first days of office is what the Biden Administration did was to rescind this policy that was working.

This crisis is a self-inflicted wound and a direct result of this Administration's policies.

The security risk to our country is real and our adversaries around the world are capitalizing on our open border policies.

In total, since President Biden took office we have had more than 7.5 million encounters at the southern border.

I've never seen our border this chaotic.

Simply put, the border is broken.

I have been shocked by the lack of--seeming lack of concern on the part of the Administration when it comes to how many people are being forced into trafficking.