[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 52 (Friday, March 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1604-H1605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DEFENDING OUR HOMELAND

  (Mr. CAWTHORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CAWTHORN. Madam Speaker, there is nothing an American will not do 
to defend his country. I rise today in defense of my homeland. I am 
angry, not just for the destruction of American values perpetrated by 
those on the left, but I am angry because my colleagues simply do not 
seem to care.
  They do not care that our border is non-existent, that 6,000 
criminals cross into our country daily. They do not care that 64 
percent of the Federal arrests are of illegal immigrants. They do not 
care that America's welfare and infrastructure system simply cannot 
handle this influx of criminal immigrants. They do not care because, to 
them, power is all that matters.
  I have a message to the power-hungry and the partisan. Power 
corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  It is in the nature of Americans to be kind. It is in our nature to 
be gentle and loving. But know this, when it comes to the matter of 
protecting our

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friends, our family, and our heartland, do not trifle with this 
representative democracy. For we the people will not stop, we will 
never back down. We will give our everything to protect those dear to 
us. This is our country. This is our Republic. Finish the wall.

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