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On the recordApril 6, 2022
Kamala who? In all seriousness, it is unfortunate that Vice President Harris has not fulfilled her mission to be the border czar. It is awful. Did you see the news today in regard to the free phones that the White House Press Secretary talked about today, free phones for migrants? Think about it. I was down in Panama almost a year ago and went to the Darien Gap. Who did I see? IOM, the International Organization for Migration. Where do they get their money? They get a lot of their money from the United Nations. Who puts the most money into the United Nations? Yes, Americans do. Back home on the farm, we used to refer to this as--my colleague from Texas just said how many, how many? I would say to you also: How much? We used to refer to it as eating your seed corn. Americans pay an international organization to send debit cards for these people to take themselves up the Panama pipeline all the way to the southern border. Then you pay for a bus ride to get them to the airport. Then you pay for an airline ride: Philadelphia, Baltimore, wherever. They are going around the country. Then you pay for the education, the free education they are going to get. You pay for the healthcare. That is what you Americans are paying for every single day for over 2 million people, and it is about to get worse.…
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Tom Tiffany
Republican · Wisconsin

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