[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 168 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       BIDEN'S 2007 BORDER POLICY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. ``Ladies and gentlemen, no great country can say it is 
secure without being able to control its borders. Period. What I would 
do about it is what I proposed to do about it almost 13 years ago. I 
would radically ramp up the number of border security guards we have 
and increase the use of electronic surveillance material we have to 
guard the border.''
  Now, which politician said those words back on the campaign trail 
back in 2007?
  Here is another quote for you: ``We simply cannot allow people to 
pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and 
circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, 
and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.''
  That wasn't President Trump. That wasn't even a Republican. Those 
commonsense border policy quotes you heard came from none other than 
President Biden and President Obama.
  Those words reveal the Democrats do know what is needed to fix our 
border crisis, but they are too afraid of what the liberal media and 
the progressive left would do in order to act.
  So I call on President Biden to listen to his own advice and do what 
needs to be done because ``no great country can say it is secure 
without being able to control its own borders. Period.''

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