[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1369-H1370]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         CRISIS AT OUR BORDERS

  (Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, as we speak, at 
President Biden's behest, thousands of migrants are crossing our border 
illegally and being detained in facilities that are well over capacity.
  Besides the many adults, the real victims are the thousands of 
unaccompanied migrant children, many being

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sent by drug cartels to this country. These children are often used by 
cartels to smuggle drugs or money, and many are being sold into 
essential slavery with the promise of easy and safe passage to the U.S.
  Does the President not care about the problem of juvenile human 
trafficking occurring at the border?
  For years, Democrats and media types slammed the Trump administration 
for keeping kids in cages. Their righteous indignation is conspicuously 
absent from today's discourse, as they are now referring 
euphemistically in the press to the ``migrant detention centers.'' 
Amazingly, you have to have a negative COVID test to fly into the 
country, but you can be COVID-positive and enter illegally.
  Madam Speaker, the basic reality is this: We need to know who is in 
our country. We are a country of laws. ``Catch and release'' has now 
become a national security threat. Even CNN is calling this a crisis.
  I urge the Biden administration to admit this is a crisis and fix the 
problem it has caused.

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