[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 93 (Tuesday, June 4, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4223]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY LEADS TO HEIGHTENED BORDER SECURITY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, as I speak, unprecedented 
tsunamis of illegal aliens swamp Customs and Border Patrol resources on 
America's porous southern border with Mexico.
  What is the socialist Democrat response to this dangerous, life-
threatening invasion? Today, they help make our border security crisis 
worse by pushing legislation that gives illegal aliens amnesty that, in 
turn, entices even more illegal aliens to cross our border.
  What is the result of past socialist Democrat amnesty efforts? In the 
first half of fiscal year 2019, the number of illegal alien family 
units captured by Border Patrol roughly tripled over the previous year. 
Worst yet, the number of captured illegal aliens topped 100,000 in each 
of March and April. Further, the number of illegal alien caravans has 
skyrocketed from two in fiscal year 2017, to 13 in fiscal year 2018, to 
104 large illegal alien caravans of 100 or more individuals, totaling 
17,242 illegal alien captures in just the first 6 months of fiscal year 
2019.
  Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost recently testified to the Senate 
that, ``Our apprehension numbers are off the charts. . . . We cannot 
address this crisis by simply shifting more resources or building more 
facilities. It is like holding a bucket under a faucet. It doesn't 
matter how many buckets you give me if we can't turn off the flow.''
  Thanks to socialist Democrats' betrayals of the American people, the 
crisis is not just centered on illegal aliens from Mexico and Central 
America. For the first time ever, on May 31, Border Patrol agents 
captured a large caravan of illegal aliens from Africa, including 
places like Angola, Cameroon, and Congo. Also, on May 31, Border Patrol 
agents captured the largest group of illegal aliens ever captured at 
one place: 1,036 illegal aliens at the El Paso, Texas, border.
  Let me be very clear: Illegal alien amnesty only begets and 
encourages more lawless illegal alien conduct.
  Socialist Democrats' callous disregard for American citizens plagued 
by illegal aliens demonstrates just how radical socialist Democrats 
have become. However, if you understand the underlying reason for the 
socialist Democrats' dangerous open borders policies, the inaction and 
callousness make sense.

  About 70 percent of households with an illegal alien in them live off 
welfare and on the backs of American taxpayers. Since illegal aliens 
are heavily dependent on welfare, once they get the amnesty and the 
American citizenship socialist Democrats desperately seek to bestow, 
that makes them reliable socialist Democrat voters. After all, 
socialist Democrats are the party for taking much-needed money from 
hardworking American taxpayers to pay for welfare for those who prefer 
to vote for a living rather than work for one.
  Quite frankly, socialist Democrats don't give one twit about the 
thousands of dead Americans who die each year because of illegal alien 
homicides. Socialist Democrats care not one twit about American blood 
on their hands. Socialist Democrats covet political power, and they see 
open borders, amnesty, and illegal aliens voting as the way to get it.
  That is why so many socialist Democrat cities, like San Francisco, 
are passing laws that allow illegal aliens to register to vote, and 
vote, in American elections, regardless of how badly this denies 
American citizens control over their own governments.
  This insult to American voters is so astonishing, it deserves 
repeating. Socialist Democrat cities, like San Francisco, are passing 
laws that allow illegal aliens to register to vote, and vote, in 
American elections, regardless of how badly this denies American 
citizens control over their own governments.
  Mr. Speaker, I yearn for the day that socialist Democrats put the 
interests of American citizens above the interests of illegal aliens, 
above the socialist Democrats' craving for political power. 
Unfortunately, that day is not today.

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