[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FAILED OPEN-BORDER POLICIES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, thanks to President Biden's open-border 
policies, human smuggling is now a $20 billion business for criminal 
cartels. In barely 2 years, the Biden administration and House 
Democrats squandered the progress that had been made to secure our 
border and have enriched criminal cartels.
  What is the Biden administration doing to correct this? Nothing.
  Instead, when Republican Governors DeSantis from Florida and Abbott 
from Texas bused and flew a dozen illegal immigrants from their States 
to Democrats' so-called sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., 
Chicago, New York, and even Martha's Vineyard, Democrats were outraged.
  Some politicians who earlier claimed they would welcome illegal 
immigrants with open arms have threatened legal action against these 
Governors, accusing them, laughingly, of human trafficking.
  Are they really trying to claim that a free ticket to Martha's 
Vineyard is human trafficking; but the criminal cartels smuggling 
people into our country is not?

  Democrats don't seem to care that their policies are enabling 
criminal cartels to abuse women and children who are seeking a better 
life.
  The humanitarian crisis we are seeing at the southern border is a 
direct result of President Biden's failed open-border policies. The 
negligence of this crisis by the Biden administration and House and 
Senate Democrats and their refusal to fix it is inconceivable.

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