[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 16 (Monday, January 29, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H269]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    IMMIGRATION AND THE CONSTITUTION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I give much respect to this book called 
the Constitution, which, if we read some of the opening comments made, 
it is said that the Declaration of Independence was the promise and the 
Constitution was the fulfillment.
  It is a good roadmap and a good truth, so it disturbs me that the 
Governor of the State of Texas is standing up against the supremacy of 
the United States and the Constitution. Amendment 10 says: The powers 
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited 
by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively.
  It is the responsibility of the United States Government to deal with 
immigration issues and, therefore, the Texas National Guard should not 
be militarized to stand up against the Border Patrol agents. Federal 
agents in the service of their Nation should be allowed to do their job 
and that is to secure the border, and they have been doing that.
  Pass legislation is what this Congress must do to give further 
authority to the President of the United States, and those Border 
Patrol agents will follow the law. We need to ensure that the law is 
followed by the States and the Governors, and the law that the 
President upholds is a law that is supreme.
  Mr. Speaker, follow the United States of America and that law.

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