[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 81 (Thursday, May 12, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          NATIONAL POLICE WEEK

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, this week as we commemorate National Police 
Week for those with us and for those who have fallen, I think we find 
different ways to honor them. One of the ways we can honor them is also 
to make their job easier. Unfortunately, with the Biden border crisis, 
the numbers are devastating. There have been nearly one-quarter million 
migrant encounters in March because it is a green light and because it 
is a magnet at our border. There has been a 68 percent drop in 
deportations in 2021.
  Where are we going to put folks like this when we are overwhelming 
the ability to have the judges and to have their cases heard?
  It is not helping. And so we have sanctuary cities all across the 
U.S. that are making it more acceptable for illegal immigration to 
happen and making it very difficult for law enforcement to figure out 
how to process and how to deal with the interactions with local police 
and ICE.
  So we have to have a much more coherent policy on our border: help 
complete the fence, make these gaps go away that so many are pouring 
through and giving us such huge numbers here. Forty-two have been 
arrested on the terrorist watch list under Biden. Let's make the job 
for our border police and our city police much easier and have a better 
border policy.

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