[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 130 (Monday, July 26, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3891]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER IS UNPROTECTED

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, we have a record-setting surge of illegal 
drugs coming in across our southern border, including the very, very 
deadly fentanyl, which takes only small amounts to greatly affect many 
people, as well as whatever other activities the cartels want to do.
  The U.S.-Mexico border is basically unprotected, and it doesn't seem 
to be a priority of the Biden administration at all. Please, prove me 
wrong.
  Yet, the Biden administration is happy to, once again, push the idea 
of perhaps shutting down the country over COVID again. Is it because of 
the delta variant, or now is it going to be over a new Mexico variant? 
But it seems to be coming our way.
  Yet, they will not control the border and the flow of illegal 
immigrants that might be carrying COVID themselves, whether it is 
through the new Mexico variant or not.
  So you have to ask, whose side is this administration on with this 
open sieve of a border, these drugs coming through, illegal immigrants 
coming through, and then putting the clamps down on our own economy and 
our own people?

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