[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4443]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          CRISIS AT THE BORDER

  (Mr. ROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I am here before a relatively empty Chamber, as 
is too often the case in the people's House, as I want to raise to the 
attention of the American people the absolute crisis and tragedy that 
is occurring on the southern border of the United States. It is 
unconscionable what we are allowing to occur.
  As we speak today, a little girl and her mom will be abused on the 
journey through Mexico while this country, the most powerful nation in 
the history of the world, buries its head in the sand because my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle, in a cynical political 
gesture and move, refuse to actually take up the supplemental request 
from the President of the United States for $4\1/2\ billion to provide 
the beds and the resources necessary to deal with the crisis, and to 
start taking up the bills that we should take up to ensure we fix the 
asylum crisis that cartels are using for profit, and to fix the catch-
and-release broken system that is allowing our system to be overrun, 
allowing communities in Texas to be overrun.
  This is a tragedy, and it is unconscionable that this body will not 
address it.

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