[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 164 (Wednesday, September 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H4876-H4877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CRISIS ON OUR SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, while the President was 
vacationing at his beach house, and the Border Czar Kamala Harris 
enjoyed a football game, our Border Patrol agents were working around 
the clock to address the over 12,000 migrants who illegally crossed the 
Del Rio International Bridge this week.
  This is on top of the more than 200,000 apprehensions Border Patrol 
agents encountered in August, a 317 percent increase from the same time 
last year.
  So what has changed?
  The Biden administration's reckless repeal of President Trump's 
successful border policy and the Biden open border agenda. Even the 
Democratic Mayor of Del Rio, Texas, admitted that ``this is beyond 
crisis. This is urgent. This is dire.''
  The President campaigned on open borders and free health care for 
illegal immigrants. Americans need to wake up to the socialist policies 
that are destroying our Nation and undermining the rule of law. The 
Biden experiment has not worked and will not work and it is a total 
failure.

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  In my State of Texas we are always open for business. Now we are open 
to illegal behavior every single day, thanks to President Biden.
  In God we trust.

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