[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 65 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              BORDER WEEK

  (Mr. MANN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the southern border. 
President Biden's policies paved the way for this full-scale crisis. He 
promised outright citizenship to more than 11 million illegal 
immigrants, placed a moratorium on deportations, and halted border wall 
construction.
  I went to the southern border to witness firsthand this crisis last 
week:
  I saw scared children. Under the Biden administration, Mexican 
cartels are the winners, and innocent children are the losers. Cartels 
are making hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting children as the 
daily average of unaccompanied minors crossing the border has nearly 
doubled.
  I saw overcrowded facilities and overwhelmed Customs and Border 
Patrol agents. Texas migrant facilities are well over 700 percent 
capacity, and 40 percent of our agents are being pulled away from 
border control to process unaccompanied children.
  I watched agents place $8 million worth of methamphetamine, cartel-
smuggled drugs, on a table, and I learned that the cartel would throw 
migrant children in the Rio Grande as a distraction to avoid being 
apprehended.
  We must end these disastrous, no-consequence policies, secure our 
border through a physical barrier, enhanced technology, and patrol 
agents, and adhere to and modernize our country's immigration system.

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