[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 115 (Thursday, July 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       RESECURING SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. MEUSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, in the 100 days Vice President Harris has 
been overseeing the border, an estimated 500,000 immigrants and 
thousands of pounds of drugs have flowed over the border into our 
country. Despite clear evidence of a worsening crisis, the Biden 
administration continued to dismantle effective policies.
  When I visited the border, Border Patrol agents consistently 
expressed that eliminating the Remain in Mexico policy has brought on 
this current crisis. Now, the Biden administration is considering 
rescinding yet another successful policy, title 42, which allows CBP to 
expel adult migrants.
  The data is clear. Human traffickers, drug smugglers, and criminals 
are benefiting from the Biden administration's open border policies. 
More fentanyl has been seized this year than in all of 2020.
  Deadly drugs like fentanyl are flowing across the border into our 
communities, killing people in my district and all of our districts. 
Fentanyl was present in 75 percent of the overdose deaths in my home 
county of Luzerne County in the last year.

  An open border is not some faraway problem. Consequences are 
reverberating across America. We must send a strong message of 
enforcement and resecure our southern border.

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