[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 15, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H3239-H3243]
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   CONDEMNING THE BIDEN BORDER CRISIS AND THE TREMENDOUS BURDENS LAW 
                 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FACE AS A RESULT

  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1227, I 
call up the resolution (H. Res. 1210) condemning the Biden border 
crisis and the tremendous burdens law enforcement officers face as a 
result, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1227, the 
resolution is considered read.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

                              H. Res. 1210

       Whereas the Biden administration brazenly eliminated 
     effective and lawful Trump administration immigration 
     enforcement policies, directly leading to the worst border 
     crisis in the history of the Nation and affecting every 
     State;
       Whereas the Biden administration's failed border policies 
     have resulted in an exponential rise in illegal alien 
     encounters, totaling more than 9,300,000 in less than 4 
     years;

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       Whereas over 1,800,000 known ``gotaways'' have crossed the 
     border illegally and evaded apprehension, with the 
     administration having no idea of their identity, whereabouts, 
     or intent;
       Whereas at least 362 individuals on the terrorist watch 
     list have been apprehended trying to illegally enter the 
     country between ports of entry since fiscal year 2021;
       Whereas fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are pouring 
     into the United States, forcing local police departments to 
     issue naloxone, a lifesaving medication used to reverse 
     opioid overdoses, to every officer;
       Whereas the suffering endured by the American people from 
     the unprecedented rise in dangerous crime and historic levels 
     of drug-related deaths is the direct result of an unsecured 
     border;
       Whereas elected Democrats from Colorado, Illinois, 
     Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC, have 
     declared states of emergency as a result of the border 
     crisis;
       Whereas Democrat-led sanctuary cities have slashed city 
     budgets, including funding for law enforcement;
       Whereas law enforcement officers in the United States have 
     suffered through calls by politicians and activists to 
     ``defund the police'' and are now suffering from historically 
     low levels of recruitment and morale as a result of these 
     attacks to their profession;
       Whereas migrant gangs, such as the violent Venezuelan gang 
     Tren de Aragua, actively recruit newly arrived illegal aliens 
     into theft rings and criminal networks;
       Whereas New York City Police Department Commissioner Edward 
     Caban has warned New Yorkers of a ``wave of migrant crime'', 
     and Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has claimed the migrant crisis 
     will ``destroy New York City'';
       Whereas, on February 23, 2024, Venezuelan national Jose 
     Antonio Ibarra was arrested and charged with the murder of 
     22-year-old student Laken Riley;
       Whereas Ibarra entered the country illegally in September 
     2022 and was subsequently released by U.S. Customs and Border 
     Protection into the interior;
       Whereas, on March 2, 2024, an illegal alien, who entered 
     the United States as a ``gotaway'' at an unknown time and 
     location, allegedly struck and killed Washington State 
     Trooper Christopher Gadd;
       Whereas a Haitian national who entered the United States 
     via the unlawful Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan 
     parole program, was arrested on March 13, 2024, for the 
     sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl at an illegal alien 
     shelter in Massachusetts;
       Whereas an illegal alien from Lebanon apprehended while 
     illegally crossing the southwest border on March 9, 2024, 
     admitted to being a Hezbollah terrorist and having intentions 
     to make a bomb;
       Whereas, on March 21, 2024, illegal aliens in El Paso 
     rushed the border fence and Texas National Guard troops in an 
     effort to breach the border into the United States;
       Whereas a previously deported illegal alien was charged on 
     March 23, 2024, with murdering 25-year-old Michigan resident 
     Ruby Garcia;
       Whereas, on March 27, 2024, an illegal alien from China 
     illegally breached a military base in California and refused 
     to leave;
       Whereas, on January 27, 2024, 2 New York City Police 
     Department officers were assaulted by more than a dozen 
     illegal alien suspects in Times Square, many of whom were set 
     free without bail; and
       Whereas law enforcement officers are increasingly targeted 
     and assaulted by illegal aliens while Democrat elected 
     officials prioritize illegal alien criminals over citizens 
     and legal residents of the United States: Now, therefore, be 
     it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
       (1) acknowledges that United States law enforcement 
     officers are bravely facing dangers and challenges every day 
     that are exacerbated by the unprecedented crisis at the 
     border, which affects the entire country;
       (2) condemns the open border crisis that President Joe 
     Biden, ``Border Czar'' Vice President Kamala Harris, 
     Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro 
     Mayorkas, and other Biden administration officials have 
     willingly created along the southwest border;
       (3) urges the Biden administration, and State and local 
     elected officials, to encourage and support dedicated law 
     enforcement officers so those officers can protect the 
     homeland, their cities, counties, or States, and restore law 
     and order; and
       (4) recognizes and sympathizes with law enforcement 
     officers in the United States who have suffered through the 
     mental, physical, and psychological stress associated with 
     the lack of support, trust, and respect they face in our 
     country today.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The resolution shall be debatable for 1 
hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their respective designees.
  The gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock) and the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Nadler), each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.


                             General Leave

  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their 
remarks and include extraneous material on H. Res. 1210.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Speaker, H. Res. 1210 comes before us as thousands of frontline 
law enforcement officers come here to this Capitol to ask for our help 
to restore a justice system that was once the envy of the world but, in 
recent years, has been undermined by woke district attorneys who refuse 
to enforce our laws, woke city councils that insult and defund our law 
enforcement, and woke Federal officials who refuse to secure our 
border, which is becoming an increasing source of deadly drugs, 
terrorists, criminal gangs, and criminal cartels that illegally cross 
our borders daily.
  Just a week ago, I noted on this floor that on the first day that Joe 
Biden took office, he rescinded the successful remain in Mexico policy 
that had slowed phony asylum claims to a trickle, completely blocked 
completion of the border wall, and ordered ICE to stop enforcing court-
ordered deportations. Thus began the largest illegal mass migration in 
history.

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  I need to update the numbers this week that I cited last week. To 
date, this administration has now deliberately released a total of 4.9 
million illegal aliens into our communities, and it has allowed another 
1.9 million known got-aways to evade Border Patrol as the Border Patrol 
has been overwhelmed.
  With the new numbers combined, there are nearly 6.8 million illegal 
aliens who have entered this country because of the Democrats' open-
border policies. That is a population larger than the entire State of 
Indiana, our 17th largest State, with nine Congressional Districts.
  Now, I expect the Democrats will complain that we are bringing up yet 
another measure condemning these policies. Well, I have news for them. 
They need to get used to it. We are going to keep bringing it up until 
these policies are reversed or until the people can elect an 
administration that can and will.
  I suspect we will hear the Democrats today, as we have on so many 
past debates, assert that immigrants are more law-abiding than 
Americans. Well, listen carefully to what they say. They make no 
distinction between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants, and that 
is a supreme insult to the millions of legal immigrants who enter our 
country every year by obeying our laws, waiting patiently in line, and 
doing everything our country asks of them. Legal immigrants come here, 
pledge to pull their weight, not to be a burden on others, to obey our 
laws, and to love and defend our country.
  Illegal immigrants come here under very different circumstances. 
Their first act is to commit a Federal crime by illegally entering our 
country. Their second act is to demand free food, shelter, medical 
care, clothing, education, transportation, and legal services.
  I have watched them at the border taunting our Border Patrol as they 
illegally cross into our country. To equate their lawless behavior with 
law-abiding, hardworking, and patriotic legal immigrants is an outrage, 
and my colleagues who do so should be ashamed of themselves.
  The number of terrorist suspects the Border Patrol has encountered 
has ballooned exponentially, and law enforcement officials are warning 
that among the 1.9 million known got-aways--mostly single military-aged 
men--is likely a dangerous fifth column which could soon launch 
devastating attacks within our borders.
  Fentanyl brought in through the open border is killing hundreds of 
Americans every day.
  Democrats' sanctuary policies hamstring attempts to deport criminal 
illegal aliens. Worst of all, the admission of untold thousands of the 
most vicious gang members on the planet are now producing a terrible 
butcher's bill of murders and assaults upon Americans.
  Their contention that illegal immigrants are more law-abiding is 
simply gaslighting.

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  Here are the real numbers. When the Federation for American 
Immigration Reform looked at the actual numbers reported by State 
prisons in order to get reimbursement from the Federal Government, they 
discovered the tragic truth. Now, again, these are the requests States 
make to be reimbursed for the costs of incarcerating illegal aliens, 
and those numbers reveal that aliens are 231 percent more likely to be 
jailed for crimes in California, 440 percent more likely in New Jersey, 
and 60 percent more likely in Texas. Just to name a few.
  Madam Speaker, aliens are 231 percent more likely to be jailed in 
California according to their own SCAAP numbers. You won't find that 
anywhere else because it is illegal in California to otherwise report 
the immigration status of criminals and criminal suspects, so by their 
criteria, not a single crime is ever committed by illegals in 
California, yet at the same time they report their jails are 
overflowing.
  This is lunacy, and it has got to stop.
  Our law enforcement officers know this because they deal with this 
crisis every day at the peril of their own lives. Our angel families 
know this all too well, as they grieve their loved ones lost to this 
entirely preventable tragedy.
  Now, the House can and has written laws that will make it easier for 
future Presidents like President Trump to secure our borders and make 
it harder for future Presidents like Joe Biden to open them, but 
ultimately, this is an enforcement problem.
  When I visited with the Border Patrol agents in Yuma last year, I 
reminded them that Congress writes laws but cannot enforce them. I 
asked them what laws they needed us to write, and they unanimously 
answered: We don't need new laws; we need to enforce our existing laws. 
When Republicans visited Eagle Pass in January, the sector chief there 
said: I am standing in front of an open fire hydrant with a bucket. I 
don't need more buckets. I need somebody to turn off the hydrant.
  Donald Trump did that, and despite vicious opposition from the 
Democrats, he finally got that hydrant down to a dribble. Biden opened 
it full force with his first executive acts that he signed. That is a 
problem that can only be fixed by replacing this administration with 
one determined to secure our border, defend our country, protect our 
people, and uphold the rule of law. That can only be done by the 
American people at the ballot box.
  Until then, Republicans in the House will keep raising this issue at 
every opportunity because at the moment that is all that we can do.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. NADLER. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, my Republican colleagues like to talk a big game when 
it comes to immigration and border security. They have a long list of 
grievances against the Biden administration and a lot of tough talk 
about what should be done, but when it actually comes to doing 
something about it, doing the hard work of legislating and finding 
meaningful solutions to real problems, that is where they come up 
short.
  Instead, they resort to bringing up completely meaningless nonbinding 
resolutions that allow them to shake their fists and to demonize 
immigrants for a little while, accomplishing absolutely nothing.

  They can't even manage to bring up a simple resolution honoring law 
enforcement officers during Police Week. They have to turn everything 
into a broadside against the Biden administration and an excuse to play 
politics on immigration.
  For the fourth time in 5 months, Republicans are bringing forth an 
empty resolution that will do absolutely nothing to address the 
situation at the border or to repair our broken immigration system.
  They have completely given up on developing solutions because Donald 
Trump told them that he wanted to preserve the issue for the upcoming 
election. He wanted the issue, and he did not want them to solve the 
problem, so they walked away from a bipartisan deal negotiated by one 
of the most conservative Members of the Senate.
  Instead, all they have to offer is meaningless resolution after 
meaningless resolution, each one a useless rehash of the last.
  Like the others, this one recycles misleading statistics and 
constructs a false narrative while accomplishing nothing. That would be 
bad enough, but it also includes language that is false and downright 
offensive, such as, ``Democrat elected officials prioritize illegal 
alien criminals over citizens and legal residents of the United 
States.'' That is an outrageous assertion that is beneath the dignity 
of this House. We can have honest debates about policy, but questioning 
our loyalty to the American people is a disgusting slander and should 
be an embarrassment to anyone who supports this resolution.
  Madam Speaker, we know that the best way to secure the border is to 
expand legal pathways and to adequately fund the immigration system. We 
have not updated our legal immigration system in 30 years. The more 
broken the legal immigration system is, the more people will try to 
come to the border as the only means of entry.
  Because Republicans refuse to support President Biden's supplemental 
funding request, we don't have the resources we need to secure the 
border and to provide additional support for communities receiving 
migrants.
  We need more Border Patrol agents, more immigration judges, and more 
asylum officers so that asylum cases can be heard in weeks, not years. 
The Republicans talk about catch and release, but that is because the 
asylum cases take years. If we funded what the President requested for 
more immigration judges, more asylum officers, not to mention more 
Border Patrol agents, asylum cases would be heard in weeks, not years, 
and you wouldn't have this catch and release problem.
  We need more CBP officers and new detection technology to counter 
fentanyl. We need to modernize our ports of entry to combat the 
smuggling of people and drugs. Unfortunately, when it comes to 
providing the resources necessary to address these critical needs, 
Republicans have consistently voted ``no.'' If there is a nonbinding 
resolution full of demagoguery and fearmongering, then they are the 
first in line to support it.
  Madam Speaker, we can do better. We must do better.
  I urge Members to oppose this resolution, and I reserve the balance 
of my time.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, I would remind my friend that the bill 
that he keeps boasting about would tie the hands of any future 
President to use existing law to secure our border as President Trump 
did until illegal crossings reach 4,000 a day. That is what they refer 
to when they praise the Senate bill as the strongest border bill in 
decades, a bill that would make it impossible to do what Donald Trump 
did with our existing laws.
  Those laws didn't change on Inauguration Day. The President changed, 
and the new President reversed the policies of the Trump administration 
and introduced this terrible crisis upon our country.
  Madam Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins), the author of this resolution.
  Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the 
resolution that I have authored and introduced and will be considered 
on the House floor.
  I am going to calmly suggest my colleagues across the aisle reassess 
their position on this resolution because they are speaking of 
Republican majorities walking away from what they allege is a strong 
immigration reform and border security bill. That bill was not the 
border security bill that we passed through this House, H.R. 2, which 
was the strongest legislative measure in the history of Congress. It 
has been walked away from by the Democrat-controlled Senate. H.R. 2 is 
condemned by your President, President Biden.
  You know who also did not universally like H.R. 2, Madam Speaker? The 
cartels. My colleagues across the aisle may want to wonder, how do you 
find yourselves aligned with the cartels? Oh, let us review.
  Since day one of this administration, since January of 2021, the 
policies of our executive branch were flipped to be more receptive to 
illegal immigration, and in doing so, more aligned with the

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cartels' operations of trafficking human beings and drugs into our 
country.
  Anyone with two brain cells that may occasionally bump into each 
other would realize that if you soften your existing law enforcement on 
illegal immigration when on the other side of the border the territory 
is 100 percent controlled by criminal cartels who are trafficking two 
things, human beings and drugs, what do you think might happen? Of 
course, you are going to have a drastic increase in trafficked human 
beings and drugs, which is exactly where we are.
  Republicans took action in the first few months that we had majority 
control. We went through exhaustive legislative measures to battle 
through the language of H.R. 2. We went through an 18-hour markup in 
the Homeland Security Committee, my committee. We brought H.R. 2 to the 
floor, and it was passed with all Republicans supporting that bill. It 
went to the Senate, and there it remains gathering dust, Madam Speaker.

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  Madam Speaker, we had countless efforts to communicate with our 
colleagues in the Senate, encouraging them: Take up the bill. If you 
disagree with H.R. 2, then, by all means, debate and change, amend and 
pass your version, and send it back to the House.
  When we go to conference, that is the way things work, but that is 
not the way it happened in the Senate. The Democrat-controlled Senate 
killed H.R. 2 which was a legitimate and strong response to the 
invasion that we have faced at our southern border.
  My resolution simply acknowledges and condemns the loss of our 
sovereign control at the southern border and the impact that this wave 
upon human wave of misery, drugs, and human trafficking has brought 
upon our country and the impact upon local and State law enforcement 
who has had to bear the full brunt of the Biden administration 
policies, Madam Speaker.
  These are policies that can be flipped very quickly.
  You put me in charge of our border policy, and you will find out what 
happens with cartel operations. They are going to have to take some of 
those trillions of dollars they stole from us trafficking in the misery 
of human beings who have been caught up in their pipeline and sold 
their horrible tale of coming to America and prospering. They were sold 
a story by the cartels, and they were caught up in that trafficking.
  How is that trafficking allowed?
  It is because the doors were opened, and the borders were opened. By 
what? By lack of money?
  No. It was by change in policy from the executive branch.
  Local and State law enforcement, Madam Speaker, has had to deal with 
that. Those men and women have suffered. Those departments have 
suffered. They have been forced into crisis not by their own 
communities where they live and serve, but by executive policies of 
this Federal Government.
  My resolution is not meaningless, I say to my colleague across the 
aisle. It is quite the opposite. It acknowledges the service and 
sacrifice of the men and women who wear a badge at the local and State 
levels across our country who have been horribly impacted by the Biden 
administration policies at our southern border which have brought 
generational trauma upon our country and an era of misery we may never 
forget.
  I thank the gentleman for allowing me to speak for this amount of 
time.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Arizona (Mr. Biggs).
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to 
me.
  I do find it interesting that the arguments are consistently wrong 
from my colleagues across the aisle.
  First of all, now they are telling us: Oh, it is just money. They 
need more money.
  Yet, overwhelmingly, everybody on that side of the aisle voted for 
the continuing resolutions that came up last year. There wasn't one of 
them who said: Let's amend the CR and get more money.
  No. They didn't do that. They said: We are going to rely instead on 
this bogus bill that is going to come from the Senate.
  Now, the bogus bill from the Senate that they now love and embrace, 
why do they embrace it?
  It is because it has a few things in it that are really unique. 
Number one, every day 1,500 people have to be allowed in. Not legally, 
because we allow over 1 million people in legally, they have to be let 
in if they are here illegally. Well, 1,500 would be an improvement for 
sure because we are looking at 3 million this year, and that would only 
be about over one-half a million.
  I can understand why they would say that that is an improvement. The 
reality is that the President has authority now to act and has chosen 
not to act. This bill from the Senate would have said that he could 
close the border when the number got to 5,000 a day. That was an 
option, 5,000. Good grief, that is over 1.8 million.
  By the way, that would still be an improvement over what the Biden 
policy is today.
  The mandatory closure of the border doesn't kick in until 7,500 
illegal aliens are encountered. Wow, that is what they say is so great.
  The other thing they like about it is it granted amnesty. That is 
what they really liked about this. We know right now President Biden 
could close that border right now today if he would change the policy.
  To what, one might say?
  How about back to the policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump?
  Let me give you an example, Mr. Speaker. The Yuma sector is a good-
sized sector along the border. The entire last year of Donald Trump's 
Presidency, the encounters were a little under 8,000 for the whole 
year.
  Do you know what they get every day now, Mr. Speaker? And this is 
down. They get 350 a day.
  There have been days that I have been in Yuma where they have had 
2,500 to 3,000 a day. Last week I was down at the border, and the week 
before that I was down at the border at different places in Arizona. I 
can tell you, Mr. Speaker, that Arizona is on track to going from 2018 
through 2020, 60,000 encounters a year on average. This year it will be 
over 700,000 encounters.
  The number one drug trafficking and human trafficking corridor is the 
Tucson sector. When I was there just 2 weeks ago driving along the 
border, there were no Border Patrol agents.
  Why is that, you might say, because you could go for miles?
  It was because every agent was processing the illegal aliens who had 
crossed during the night. There were hundreds, and we are supposed to 
say: Well, do you know what? This is a meaningless resolution.
  It is not a meaningless resolution. It gets at the heart of the 
matter.
  Who is being impacted by this type of diaspora?
  Every country in the world is represented. I have talked to people 
from all over the world, and let me just tell you this, Mr. Speaker, if 
you go down to the little town of Sierra Vista in Cochise County, not 
too far from the border, about 20,000, 25,000 people live there. They 
have multiple high-speed car chases every week. Why?

  It is because the cartels control the southern border. They Snapchat 
and they Instagram to kids in Tucson high schools, Chandler high 
schools, and Mesa high schools up in my district who will go down and 
borrow their mom and dad's car.
  They will go down, and they say: Come meet us at this mile marker, 
and you will have four bodies. You will get paid $1,000 to $2,000 a 
body. You take them up to I-8 and I-10, drop them off at this mile 
marker, or you take them to an address in Phoenix to a drop house. 
Whatever you do, don't stop.
  These kids are as young as 13, fatality drivers, who drive at high 
speeds through a town of 25,000 people. That is the impact that our 
local law enforcement and our local people feel.
  How about the city of Yuma?
  There is one hospital, a 10-bed ER and a 10-bed maternity ward, and 
it is oftentimes filled with illegal aliens. Locals have to be air-
vacked to San Diego or Phoenix. That is real. My friends can dance 
around it all they want, but this is why this is not a meaningless 
resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, I support it, and I encourage my friends to do the same.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I am ready to close if the gentleman 
from New York is.
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I am ready to close, and I yield myself the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, we have heard about the Senate bill, that it wasn't 
strong enough. It was strong enough so that Senator McConnell supported 
it. Senator Lankford, one of the most conservative Senators in the 
Senate, supported it.
  It was going to pass until President Trump said: I don't want this 
problem solved. I want an issue for the election.
  Then suddenly it was stopped.
  Then we are told about H.R. 2. H.R. 2 was such a terrible bill that 
it couldn't get more than 32 votes in the Senate, a Senate with 49 
Republican Senators. So don't tell me about H.R. 2.
  Mr. Speaker, this resolution is cloaked in language ostensibly 
honoring law enforcement, but it is really just another excuse for 
Republicans to play politics with the southern border and to sound 
tough without actually doing anything. I am glad that the kind of thing 
they are talking about doing isn't being done.
  They say: Turn back to President Trump.
  President Trump separated thousands of children from their parents, 
little children, many whom even today cannot be identified and returned 
to their parents. I don't think this country wants a return to that 
kind of policy.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to oppose this pointless resolution, and 
I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Speaker, once again, I have to remind my friend that the Senate 
could not pass its bill. The House passed our bill, and the difference 
is stark. As I said, the Senate bill forbids any future President from 
using the powers that Donald Trump used to secure our borders until 
illegal crossings reached 4,000 a day.
  He is not required to take any action until they reach 5,000 a day, 
and even then he must still allow 1,500 illegal crossings every day. 
That is the Democrats' idea of border security, and it is a farce.
  This debate encapsulates the differences between the two parties on 
this issue, and they are absolutely jarring. I don't need to 
characterize it; it speaks for itself. The American people can clearly 
see the difference and will need to make the most important choice of 
their lifetimes in just a few months.
  I would simply ask: How do we make our streets safer by making it all 
but impossible to deport illegal aliens as the law requires?
  That is what our sanctuary cities are doing.
  How do we make our families safer by flooding our communities with 
deadly fentanyl?
  How do we make our children safer by refusing to vet every person who 
enters our country so that we can keep the criminals out?
  How do we make our neighborhoods safer by refusing to prosecute 
criminal illegal aliens to the fullest extent of the law?
  How do we make our highways safer by creating the conditions of 
deadly high-speed chases and drunk driving?
  How do we protect our country as untold numbers of terrorists enter 
among the 1.9 million known got-aways who have entered under Joe 
Biden's nose?
  How do we make our communities safer as criminal gangs and criminal 
cartels set up shop in our cities for their lethal business of child 
trafficking, drug trafficking, extortion, and crime?
  These are the questions that have gone unanswered since this 
administration took office and with which our local law enforcement 
officials must grapple every day at the peril of their own lives in 
order to protect ours.
  It is time we thanked them for their service and their sacrifice and 
put the full might and fury of our Nation behind the defense of our 
national borders. That is what this resolution calls for. However, one 
thing more will be needed that Congress cannot provide, and that is a 
new administration.
  Let us pray it comes in time to save our country.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Meuser). All time for debate has 
expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 1227, the previous question is ordered 
on the resolution and the preamble.
  The question is on the adoption of the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this question will be postponed.

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