[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 22 (Friday, February 5, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H458-H459]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PUTTING AMERICA FIRST

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, the Biden administration has now issued at 
least 42 executive actions, including 25 executive orders, by far the 
most of any President during this span. Clearly, all his rhetoric about 
unity is, to use his favorite word, malarkey.
  This week, the President signed three more executive orders to 
destroy progress we have made on immigration and border security.
  He reversed President Trump's public charge rule. That rule prevented 
immigrants likely to rely on social welfare programs--paid for by you 
and me, the taxpayer--from accessing green cards.

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  Asylum seekers will no longer be required to wait in Mexico while 
being processed, which is a commonsense deterrent against dubious 
asylum claims. Instead, it just waves them right in, with a backlog 
already of years on asylum hearings.
  This power has been transferred from the proper agencies now to the 
White House, where immigration no doubt will be politicized.
  Americans are suffering. Many need work because their jobs have been 
shut down due to the corona China virus.
  How can we justify closing our schools and businesses but putting our 
borders wide open?
  If the President wants to heal this Nation, he must pull together for 
the needs of struggling Americans, not these others.

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