[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7590-S7591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                            Border Security

  Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, last week, I was on the floor expressing my 
concern about things that I heard while home, and the odd thing seemed 
to be that they were things that I would never expect to be true. And

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often that has been the case over the years. You hear something from a 
constituent or read in the paper or see on the internet, and it is 
like, this can't be true.
  And the one that stands out to me this week is this intention by the 
Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human 
Services to pay up to $450,000 per person of families who illegally 
crossed our border and were detained separately.
  This is an absurd policy decision. It gives greater incentives for 
people to come to the United States and make that dangerous trek to our 
border. How can it be fair to our law-abiding American citizens?
  This is a situation that makes no sense to me. And it is something 
that the Biden administration ought to immediately reject as out of 
bounds for commonsense and good judgment and, certainly, something that 
is damaging to the ability for us to have a lawful, sovereign border, 
and something that is very damaging to the citizens of this country but 
also to those who make the humanitarian challenge of traveling through 
Central America and Mexico to our sponsor border.
  I yield the floor.

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