[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 196 (Wednesday, November 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  BORDER SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY

  (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, as the conversation has been, we know that 
border security actually is national security.
  President Biden's open border policies have incentivized a historic 
surge in illegal immigration at our southern and northern borders and 
the impact we are seeing lately on our national parks.
  Since President Biden taking office, there have been over 6.4 million 
illegal crossings of our southern border and 1.7 million known got-
aways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol.
  Every State is now a border State. Every town is now a border town. 
Democrats are using the national parks to house illegal immigrants--
think how absurd that is--which only further encourages this crisis.
  Republicans and Democrats alike have condemned Biden's border crisis. 
We must stop incentivizing further waves of illegal immigrants by 
providing them with free housing--again, the latest scheme being 
housing them in our national parks.
  We will continue to fight to secure our border and eliminate the 
financial burdens these illegal immigrants are putting on American 
taxpayers and our towns.
  That is why earlier this year we passed H.R. 2, the Secure the Border 
Act, which is the strongest border security package in American 
history.

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