[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 15, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H3735-H3736]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CONTROLLING THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, last week, I joined several of my 
Republican colleagues on an official trip to view the southern border 
in Arizona.
  We received an operational briefing from the Border Patrol stationed 
in Yuma and toured their processing center. We also went on field tours 
to see the halted construction of the border wall and a staging site 
used by cartels for smuggling children across the border.
  I was horrified by what I saw. When President Biden halted 
construction of the border wall, he left giant strips of the border 
wide open for cartels to smuggle illegal drugs and even human 
trafficking victims into our country, women and children being abused 
in ways that are unimaginable.
  I was appalled to learn how the cartel recycles the child victims so 
that they are basically the conduit to bring adults across. Then, when 
they are done with that child inside this country, they take them back 
and recycle them again through the process.
  They prey on families by telling them what they think they owe to the 
cartel and use their children in such a way. The filth, the trash left 
behind, the containers of drugs and pills you find there in the 
arroyos, in the washes, it is horrific all the way around. We must 
control our border.

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