[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H336]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           JOE BIDEN IS ROOT CAUSE OF SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, it has been a year since Joe Biden took 
office, and the southern border has all but collapsed.
  A year has passed, and he still cannot find the elusive root cause of 
his self-inflicted border crisis. Since he is clearly having some 
trouble finding the cause, I will save him some time. Joe Biden is the 
root cause of the border crisis.
  The number of illegal crossings at the border has escalated at a 
faster rate under him than at any time in recent history. Since Joe 
Biden took office, nearly 2 million illegal immigrants have been 
apprehended at the southern border.
  But wait, there is more.
  More illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border in the last 
3 months than in all of fiscal year 2020. And now, we have learned that 
illegals are being funneled to cities across the United States in the 
dead of night.
  That is right. While Americans are asleep, this administration is 
trying to cover up its own failures. Some of these illegals are known 
to have criminal records, yet they are being given a free pass.
  Across the world, people are watching this unfold. Across the world, 
people are getting the message that you can waltz into this country 
illegally with no consequences. Consider the fact that people from 160 
different countries are coming to the southern border. It is clear that 
the message is the wrong one to be sending.
  In December, a Saudi Arabian national with ties to known Yemeni 
terrorists was arrested after he crossed the border wearing a fake 
paramedic uniform. If he were released into the United States, the 
consequences would have been disastrous.
  Mr. Speaker, instead of securing the southern border and protecting 
the integrity of our national security, this administration has doubled 
down on its own failures. Because of this worsening crisis, every State 
has now become a border State.
  Border security is national security. And thanks to Joe Biden and 
congressional Democrats' open border policies, America has neither.

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