[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 24, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H5651]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TEXAS IMMIGRATION CRISIS

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, we are experiencing an unprecedented crisis 
on the Texas border, but this is not the result of a natural disaster. 
This is an entirely manmade crisis caused by the executive branch.
  The number of young undocumented immigrants has nearly tripled over 
the last 2 years. This is not a coincidence. Two years ago, the 
President essentially rewrote the Nation's immigration policies and 
promised amnesty to children of a certain age.
  Central Americans heard this message loud and clear and have sent 
their children to the United States in droves, oftentimes under the 
care of paid-off drug lords who are abusive and dangerous.
  I visited the holding facility at Lackland Air Force Base yesterday 
and heard the stories firsthand of the difficulties these children 
experience during their trip to the United States.
  The Obama administration has said it is committed to ending human 
trafficking; but, Mr. Speaker, when you are complicit in this degree of 
human trafficking, I would call you an enabler.
  I urge the President to reverse his course for the sake of these 
innocent children, for the sake of our hardworking border agents, and 
on behalf of the taxpayers.

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