[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4444]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     CRISIS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. BIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, there is a lot I could say, but I want to 
point out a couple of things.
  Right now, the Border Patrol has detention facilities that are 
designed to hold 4,000 people but are holding 19,000 people. ICE has 
facilities to hold 45,000 people, but it is holding 52,000 people.
  We are releasing people regularly into communities and throughout 
this country. Mr. Speaker, ICE alone has released over 200,000 family 
units into the country this year.
  In Yuma, Arizona, a facility designed for 250 people is currently 
housing 1,100 people.
  It is going to be 110 degrees tomorrow. Most of those people are 
being held outside under awnings with a large swamp cooler to cool 
them. That will work okay. It will be livable. It will be 
uncomfortable, but livable. But in about 3 or 4 weeks, when it is 115, 
120 degrees and the humidity is out of this world, those swamp coolers 
will not work.
  Mr. Speaker, I am asking and going to make a motion to adjourn 
because our colleagues refuse to bring a supplement that would pay for 
humanitarian and detention facilities.

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