[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 17 (Thursday, January 26, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H350-H351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CONCERNS AT OUR SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, the Biden administration continues to fail the 
American people.
  Just last month, Customs and Border Protection had 251,487 migrant 
encounters along the southern border, the highest number of encounters 
ever recorded in a single month. Despite our constant calls to get this 
crisis under control, it has only gotten worse. Either President Biden 
is trying and utterly failing, or worse, not trying at all.
  Since President Biden has taken office, there have been more than 4.5 
million migrant encounters at our southern border, and December marked 
the tenth straight month with more than 200,000 encounters, a trend 
that has never been recorded before. None of these statistics include 
the over 1.2 million known got-aways who have

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evaded our overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol agents.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise for all middle Tennesseans to say: Mr. President, 
please do your job and secure our border.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.

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