[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H7746-H7747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                            CLOSE THE BORDER

  (Mr. BIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I address you and this body because I know 
that you know more than most what it is like to have the impacts of 
illegal immigration in your State and across the border.
  In the town of Yuma, a town of about 100,000 people, every day in 
their hospital, they get 11 people who go into the emergency room. They 
get an additional four or five women every day in Yuma, Arizona, who go 
into the maternity ward. Mr. Speaker, $20.4 million in uncompensated 
care was provided by that hospital in just the first 6 months of this 
year.
  Mr. Speaker, you and I both know that when the Vice President said on 
Sunday that our border is not open, she was not telling the truth. Our 
border is wide open, and it has inherent dangers and problems for the 
United States of America.
  We can close it today. I encourage Members of this House to join me 
in getting my discharge petition out. We need to close this border.

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