[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 110 (Friday, June 23, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3130]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          SECURING THE BORDER

  (Mr. MEUSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, I have been to the border several times now. 
When I visited in 2019 under President Trump, it was orderly, and the 
situation was contained. It brings me no pleasure to say when I visited 
last time, under the Joe Biden administration, it was an unmitigated 
disaster.
  We watched migrants flow over the border and saw holding facilities 
far past capacity. We saw guardsmen pulled away from their border posts 
to go buy diapers and other supplies. We saw mountains of drugs that 
had been confiscated, which left everyone wondering how many had gone 
through undetected.
  On any visit to the border, CBP will inform you that where there is a 
barrier, the border is secure, and the portions without are not.
  Yet, sadly, this administration has done nothing over the past 2\1/2\ 
years to curb illegal immigration. Inversely, they have actually 
encouraged it, which has strengthened the cartels. It has gotten so bad 
we are having illegals fill up school gymnasiums.
  Yes, we need comprehensive immigration reform, but we need to stop 
the bleeding first by securing the border. We know how to do it.

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