On the recordSeptember 18, 2024
I appreciate the gentleman yielding tonight. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Kamala Harris' tenure as border czar has been a complete and absolute failure. For the folks who claim she was never in charge of the border, I will read President Biden's own words from March of 2021. He specifically assigned Vice President Harris with the task of ``stemming the migration to our southern border.'' I understand the White House would like to rewrite that bit of history, but a simple Google search will show that it isn't just House Republicans calling her the border czar. She was widely referred to as such by the mainstream media at the time. Since her appointment, Harris has gone to the border only once. Even worse, she never spoke to either of the past two chiefs of Border Patrol. While the Vice President was failing to meet her new responsibility, our Commander in Chief was busy undoing the successful border policies of President Trump. Here is where that has gotten us. More than 10 million people have tried to cross into the United States illegally in less than 4 years. More than 52,000 illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds have tried to enter our Nation illegally. Those are just the ones we know about. Keep in mind more than 2 million people managed to evade Border Patrol under this administration. That is more got-aways under Biden- Harris than in the previous decade combined.…





