[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 65 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H1796-H1797]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BIDEN'S BORDER CRISIS

  (Mr. GOSAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, 30 days ago, I invited Mr. Biden to Yuma 
County in my district to view firsthand the crisis his open border 
policies have created.
  My invitation was as urgent as it was sincere.
  The crisis all along the southern border has only gotten 
substantially worse. Illegal alien crossings are at a

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15-year high; border facilities are 1,700 percent over capacity; 5,000 
illegal aliens crossing the border have prior criminal records.
  Mr. Biden recently named Kamala Harris as a crisis manager for the 
border crisis he created.
  Under her watch, the problem has gotten dramatically worse. Over 
172,000 illegal-alien apprehensions have occurred, including 20,000 
unaccompanied minors taken into custody in March--the highest monthly 
total in the history of the United States, and it is much greater.
  The situation is charitably called a disaster. This needs to stop. We 
need order restored to the border and we need faithful execution of 
existing Federal laws.
  To date, Mr. Biden has not responded to my invitation. Therefore, I 
stand on the House floor today to re-invite Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris to 
visit Yuma to see what my constituents are experiencing from this 
historical surge of illegal-alien border crossings.

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