[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 10, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H2260-H2261]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             HOW MANY MORE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
New York (Ms. Malliotakis) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask the question, how many 
more Americans must die before President Joe Biden reverses the 60-plus 
policies he put in place that led to our border being wide open?
  We know that under sections 1182 and 1225 of title 8 of immigration 
law, the President has the authority to secure the border and use his 
discretion to implement policies. Sadly, the President has used his 
discretion instead to completely dismantle our southern border, 
allowing for dangerous gang members, criminals, smugglers, and illegal 
immigrants to enter.
  Right now, the President can end catch and release. He can reinstate 
remain in Mexico. He can make changes to asylum and parole. He can 
expedite removal of individuals. He can shut down the border 
altogether. He can cut off funding to nonprofit organizations, 
nongovernmental partners, that are basically allowing people to travel 
all around our country.
  Again, sadly, President Biden used these authorities instead, to 
dismantle the policies of President Trump.
  As a result, we have seen so many Americans being killed. Illegal 
immigrants have come over our border.
  I will read some of the headlines. This is just from this year alone.
  ``Illegal immigrant from El Salvador charged with murder in shootout 
that killed 2-year-old boy, injured teen mom.''
  ``Venezuelan illegal immigrant charged with sexual assault against 
14-year-old in Virginia.''
  ``ICE confirms Georgia student murder suspect entered U.S. illegally, 
was previously arrested in NYC.''
  ``Five-time deported illegal alien accused of killing 10-year-old boy 
walking home from school.''
  ``Honduran illegal migrant arrested for rape of girl, 14, stabbing 
man during knifepoint robbery.''
  ``Illegal migrant charged in Michigan woman's killing was deported 
under Trump but snuck back in: ICE.''
  ``Illegal migrant deported 8 times with 11 arrests now charged with 
murder in Ohio.''
  These are just some of the victims of President Biden's open border 
policy.
  If we go into last year, we can talk more about an illegal immigrant 
who had an outstanding warrant for attempted strangulation. He 
approached a car and shot a woman seven times because she wouldn't hang 
up the phone when he asked her to.
  An illegal immigrant was charged with sadistically murdering a 16-
year-old Texas high schooler, stabbing her to death and dumping her 
body in the bathtub. Her body was discovered by her mother.
  An illegal alien released by the Biden administration was arrested 
for raping an 11-year-old girl, strangling her to death after knocking 
on the door of her home.
  An illegal who entered our country under the Biden administration was 
charged with driving a minivan into a schoolbus full of children, 
flipping the bus and killing an 11-year-old boy.
  An illegal alien repeatedly stabbed and mutilated individuals and 
then dumped them in a field in Daytona Beach, Florida.
  An illegal immigrant was arrested for murdering a 57-year-old, a 
mother of three and a grandmother of four, in Texas.
  This is a 5-minute speech, and I am only allowed 5 minutes, or else I 
could go on and on.

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  Again, I will ask, how many more murders of Americans, whether it be 
by stabbing, drunk driving, shooting, or fentanyl, will it take before 
the President reverses his dangerous policies at our southern border or 
the Senate takes up our legislation, H.R. 2, the Border Security Act, 
which would require him to take action at the border?
  Giving the President a little more discretion, as the Senate has 
suggested, is not going to resolve the issue because the President is 
not using the discretion he currently has. We need to require him to 
take these actions to reinstate the commonsense policies of the 
previous administration that were working and stop this President from 
giving parole to individuals who are dangerous gang members wreaking 
havoc in cities like mine in New York.

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