[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 12 (Monday, January 26, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SECURING OUR SOUTHERN BORDER

  (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, this past weekend, I traveled to McAllen, 
Texas, down to our border, to once again tour the intake facilities 
that are being used to process the tens of thousands of individuals who 
are crossing into the United States each year.
  This problem has not gone away. Last summer, I spent time at home 
listening to my constituents at town hall meetings. The number one 
concern for Texans was the influx of illegal immigrants into our State. 
For Texans, this has meant a strain on our classrooms, a strain on our 
hospitals, a major strain on local law enforcement and our economy in 
general.
  Last year, the President refused to come to the Texas border. The 
President so far has refused to govern. The President has refused to 
follow the rule of law and continues to turn our once-porous border 
into a wide-open space.
  As such, we must do all we can to secure the southern border and send 
a loud and clear message to the child traffickers and to the drug 
smugglers who are taking children on a treacherous journey from Central 
America to the United States and setting them up for failure once they 
are here. We must end this human rights crisis. The correct way is to 
secure our southern border.

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