[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 13, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TOURING THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (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, every State in our country has been 
negatively impacted by the Biden administration's wide-open border 
policies.
  Last week, I traveled to Cochise County, Arizona, with the 
Congressional Western Caucus and the Committee on Natural Resources to 
tour our southern border and discuss President Biden's border policy 
and how it is affecting our Federal lands and parks.
  While in Arizona, my colleague, Representative Tom Tiffany, and I 
decided to follow up on the story that James O'Keefe had exposed that 
alleged the Casa Alitas Ramada hotel in Tucson was housing illegal 
immigrants at taxpayer expense.
  Congress has the right, of course, to exercise oversight, as Federal 
funds prop up these locations and nongovernment organizations, known as 
NGOs, that are secretly housing these illegals, and Congress has a 
right to see how American tax dollars are being spent. We have that 
accountability.
  Instead, we were denied access to even the parking lot, given no 
information, and they even called the sheriff's office on us.
  We will be back. Congress must immediately investigate and hold 
onsite hearings and get down to the bottom of this.
  These NGOs that wrap themselves in charity and in religion, in some 
cases, are making a lot of money off this and are actually undermining 
the security of our country by trying to move people as fast as they 
can into this process.
  These NGOs must publicly testify before Congress, and more 
importantly, the American public, about how our tax dollars are being 
used and what for.

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