Tom Tiffany

Thank you for permitting me to present Testimony at your Committee hearing in Sierra Vista, Arizona, February 8, 2024.

This Administration refuses to secure our border.

The cartels that illegally smuggle immigrants into this country are the same ones smuggling drugs.

We passed legislation in DC to do these things.

Over 100,000 Americans have died of overdose in the last year.

Yes, and I stopped today at a Border Patrol checkpoint. It has not been manned for a long time, and it is not the fault of the Border Patrol. It is because they are being babysitters at this point. It is terribly unfortunate.

This violence will not stop until we secure our border.

If people want something to do, call your United States Senators from Arizona.

Our broken asylum laws are driving illegal immigration and the chaos at the border.

Under President Biden, the situation at the southern border has spiraled completely out of control.

Winston Churchill once said Americans always do the right thing, but only after we have exhausted every single option.

During his term, United States Customs and Border Protection has recorded more than 6 million encounters with illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico.

The cartels that illegally smuggle migrants into this country are the same ones that are smuggling drugs.

This Subcommittee is meeting today to discuss the Biden administration's ongoing failure to secure our nation's southern border.

As long as we continue to catch and release tens of thousands of illegal aliens into this country every month the crisis will not stop.

He could do that by executive action and it wouldn't even be unconstitutional.

When we fail to secure our Federal lands, we fail to secure our border, and the process we have now at the border is unprecedented.

People often don't realize just how much of our southern border is comprised of Federal lands.

we are going to continue fighting for you, we are going to continue fighting for our constituents across this country, and we are going to continue to make sure that Americans control Americans, not Mexican cartels and drug lords and…

In the last 3 years of the Biden administration, we have lost operational control of our border.

Under that bill the border never closes, and went on to say, just today, that our priority is not American citizens.

Since significant numbers of convicted criminals, known gang members, and suspected terrorists have crossed the southern border in recent years, the Biden administration's failure to apprehend, or even adequately screen the millions of…

In the last three years of the Biden Administration, we have lost operational control of our border.

But I tell you what, November is coming quick. Biden had all three houses when he first came in.

I want to correct one statement.