[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 84 (Tuesday, May 17, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          CHAOS AT THE 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, a country without borders might as well 
just not be a country.
  The chaos that this current Biden border policy is causing is 
damaging American families, American schools, and American healthcare, 
and it is not even good for the so-called immigrants themselves.
  Witness the way children are used and abused in order to get people 
across the border to please the cartels, to pay off the cartels. Kids 
are rented, rented out by families. To get a fake family group across 
the border, kids are often left by the river--children left by the 
river when they are done with them and recycled back across like you 
would an empty pop bottle.
  Is this the kind of humanity this administration is about? It 
certainly isn't for us on this side of the aisle.
  We need to enforce our border. We need to continue building the fence 
so it is effective for our border personnel to be able to process ones 
that really are coming here on what would be true asylum.
  Asylum laws need to be changed because they have been made a joke. 
Indeed, some of the newest cases won't be heard until 2024. There is 
such a backlog.

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