[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 21, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  DON'T PROSECUTE BORDER PATROL AGENTS

  (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, for months, the Democrats and the liberal 
media have been intentionally falsely accusing Border Patrol agents of 
whipping illegal immigrants coming across our southern border. The 
media falsely mislabeled the agents' long reins, which they use to 
control their horses, as whips.
  Of course, where are all the fact checkers about this information? I 
guess they are absent over at The Washington Post and CNN.
  Yet, the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security isn't 
interested in the truth, either. They want to punish these Border 
Patrol agents who are doing their job and arresting illegal immigrants. 
Following a false narrative and special interest pressure, the DHS has 
announced plans to discipline these folks on horseback involved in the 
so-called incidents.
  Prosecuting these law enforcement officers will do nothing but lower 
the already-low morale at the CBP.
  The Biden administration's open-border and soft-on-crime policies 
have incentivized 2 million illegal immigrants to come across our 
southern border and have stripped Border Patrol agents from having the 
authority to stop it. Instead, they have become Welcome Wagon workers.

  There is a caravan of illegal immigrants, nearly 20,000 strong, 
awaiting the day Biden fulfills his destructive promise of ending the 
border protections under title 42.
  We need a true border policy that protects Americans.

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