[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 7 (Monday, January 9, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H97]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. ROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I guess the President of the United States was 
able to find the southern border on a map.
  It took him 2 years to finally get down to the southern border, and 
what happens?
  Everybody just goes around and cleans up everything that is going on 
in El Paso.
  Let me tell you something: The people of Texas know the truth. In 
Texas we are dealing every single day with 6,000, 7,000, or 8,000 
people crossing the border every day.
  Now, with a House majority, we have got the will and we have got the 
power to do something about it. It is time we do something because the 
people of Texas are taking the brunt every single day.
  There are still migrants that are being sold into the sex trafficking 
trade. There are still Americans who are dying from fentanyl 
poisonings.
  No camera presence down in El Paso, no going down there for a show 
trip is going change the fact that Texans are struggling.
  It is time right now for the House majority to do our job. We are 
going to have to stop funding a Department of Homeland Security that 
refuses to secure the border of the United States. We are going to do 
that this year.

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                              ADJOURNMENT

  Mr. BEAN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now 
adjourn.
  The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o'clock and 40 minutes 
p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, 
Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at 10 a.m. for morning-hour debate.

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