[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 5 (Wednesday, January 10, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H39]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  BORDER CRISIS IS KILLING OUR COUNTRY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, for the new year, I have done a survey 
with my constituents and asked what the issues are that they want to be 
focused on in 2024. The top answer they submitted in my northern 
California district was the border crisis, a Biden and Democratic 
Party-created crisis.
  Republicans and Democrats agree there is a crisis at our border, and 
it is President Joe Biden's fault. During his first 100 days in office, 
he took 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting the 
construction of the border fence.
  Under his administration, there have been 8 million illegal border 
crossings nationwide and over 6.7 million encounters at our southern 
border. The Biden administration's continuous open border policies are 
to blame for this historic crisis.
  We need action now. We need it yesterday. We must pass, over in the 
Senate, H.R. 2, the strongest border security bill in congressional 
history, immediately. We must complete the wall, change the asylum 
rules to not be such a joke and prevent millions of illegals from being 
attracted here by a magnet, streamline deportations, and end parole in 
the United States.
  We cannot continue to allow this to stand any longer. It is killing 
our country and our economy.

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