[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TIME TO SECURE OUR BORDER

  (Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, as Congress debates 
spending trillions of taxpayer dollars, there is a crisis on our 
southern border that is being ignored.
  In the past year, our Border Patrol agents have made almost 1.5 
million apprehensions, yet we are still seeing that there is a massive 
surge in illegal immigration.
  The rise in overdose deaths that our country has seen can be directly 
tied to the increase in fentanyl that is being smuggled into the United 
States through Mexico. Now, at the height of the crisis, we are seeing 
reports that the Biden administration wants to pay settlements to 
immigrants who enter our country illegally. This is unacceptable.
  Now is the time to secure our border and stop the security and 
humanitarian crises that this policy has created.
  Right now, Congress should be working to address the real and present 
danger at our southern border, not debating yet another socialist 
spending spree.

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