[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6192-H6193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               PAYMENT OF $450,000 TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

  (Mr. RUTHERFORD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RUTHERFORD. Madam Speaker, I rise today to talk about the Biden 
border crisis, which continues to rage every single day. For months, 
the Biden administration has had no answer for the hundreds of 
thousands of illegal immigrants who have streamed across our southern 
border.
  Now we have learned that the President is actually considering a 
payment

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of $450,000 to illegal immigrants who were arrested during the previous 
administration.
  How on Earth is this acceptable in the United States of America? What 
has happened to our basic understanding of the rule of law? I refuse to 
allow a half-million-dollar handout of hardworking taxpayers' money to 
those who came here illegally.
  That is why I am proud to support the Illegal Immigrant Payoff 
Prohibition Act, introduced by Congressman McClintock, which would 
prevent the attorney general from making these payments.
  It is very simple: illegal immigrants should not be rewarded for 
breaking the law.

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