[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 20, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H7977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             MIGRANTS WHO SEEK ASYLUM AND REFUGE IN AMERICA

  (Ms. DEAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN. Madam Speaker, last week, nearly 50 migrants who sought 
asylum and refuge in America were met with grossly un-American actions.
  Governor DeSantis deceived them and shipped them across the Nation, 
like chattel, to Martha's Vineyard all in search of hollow political 
points.
  Not only was this a failed political stunt, it was a failure of 
common humanity--of common decency.
  To think of what men, women, children--a 1-month-old--endured to seek 
asylum in our great Nation. To think of the bravery and the agony to 
leave your home, your family, your country in search of a better way of 
life--fleeing communism, political and economic instability in 
Venezuela.
  Madam Speaker, Members come to this floor to give 1-minute speeches 
every session, and I hear Republican speeches and I see the signs, the 
stunts--Biden's border crisis.
  No. This is America's problem, our problem. And a ``wall'' or these 
recent, cruel stunts by shameful Governors auditioning to be the next 
Trump offer no solutions, no hope.
  Instead, it will take courage--courage by Republicans in both 
Chambers to come back to the table and work with Democrats to fix our 
long-broken immigration system. That is the American way.

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