On the recordMarch 18, 2021
We take up this bill at a time when almost three times as many people are crossing the border as were this time last year. Under President Obama, it was a bad day if we had 1,000 contacts at the border. Now, we are having 3,000 contacts a day. These bills are being introduced, advertising that people who come here legally are suckers, and we are going to give preference to people who didn't come here legally. I would further like to ask that we delay the vote until the Biden administration removes the muzzling of the Border Patrol. We do not really know what is going on at the border, when this most opaque of administrations tells the Border Patrol that they cannot tell the press or Congressmen what is going on. James Madison must be spinning in his grave. He gave the press freedom, and they refuse to use it.
