[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H5240-H5241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        OUR BORDER IS NOT SECURE

  (Mr. SMITH of Missouri asked and was given permission to address the

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House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, as the Republican leader of the 
House Budget Committee, I led a group of 12 Members of Congress last 
week to the Rio Grande Valley to see firsthand the real cost of 
President Biden's disastrous immigration agenda.
  There were major gaps in border wall and open areas that make it 
easier for the Mexican cartels to make millions of dollars trafficking 
humans and illegal drugs over the border. And yet, we saw $350 million 
worth of rusted border wall materials sitting unused because of 
President Biden's illegal decision to freeze border wall funding.
  Border Patrol agents told me they are seeing 10,000 encounters each 
week in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone, including 174 different 
nationalities who have been apprehended on the southern border. The 
rest of the world has figured out that our border is not secure, 
whether the Biden administration realizes it or not.
  I will continue fighting to secure the border and protect families 
from President Biden's disastrous agenda.

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