[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H5290-H5291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY MUST SERVE THE NATION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I have known the men and women who have 
served in the Department of Homeland Security and have dealt with the 
border for many, many years. I have respected the work that they have 
done. It is tragic, however, that as we continue to serve under this 
administration, we now find the Department of Homeland Security in a 
major cover-up: the unaccompanied children who have been separated from 
their families, the disallowances of Members to visit and do their 
oversight work to see the conditions, and the rejection of the 
Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General who wrote 
a direct memo to the secretary that said there is an urgent crisis that 
you must deal with at the border, and for this secretary to go on 
national television and deny it.
  You can applaud the men and women who work, but you cannot applaud 
bad acts. You cannot applaud what is happening in Mexico, which I just 
came back from. The migrants who are there are not being taken care of. 
They are in desperate need. Some of them will

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not have a place to live, some of them will not have food, and it is 
because of the policies of this administration.
  The Department of Homeland Security must serve the Nation, it must 
not serve one single President. I maintain that we are going to fight 
to fix this broken immigration system.

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