[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 94 (Monday, June 3, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H3545-H3546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WREAKING HAVOC

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
New York (Ms. Malliotakis) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. MALLIOTAKIS. Mr. Speaker, this morning, I woke up to a press 
conference being held by my mayor, the mayor of New York City, Eric 
Adams, and our police commissioner. They were saying that while we were 
sleeping, two NYPD officers were shot.
  They were shot by somebody who is in this country illegally, somebody 
who entered via Eagle Pass, somebody who is a national of Venezuela, 
and somebody who was allowed to be here because of President Biden's 60 
policy changes that have opened up our border, allowing dangerous 
individuals to enter.
  This was someone who was in New York City being housed, being fed, 
and having legal services, laundry services, free metro cards, and 
healthcare on the taxpayers, the hardworking taxpayers whom I represent 
in New York.
  The policies of the left are destroying this country. They are 
destroying our city. They are destroying the rule of law.
  This was totally preventable. It is something that should not have 
occurred.
  Thankfully, those police officers are okay, but it sheds light that 
the failed policies of the Democrats on the Federal, State, and local 
levels have come to a head, and this is the result: Our law 
enforcement, those tasked to protect us, are being hurt.
  Chuck Schumer, on the other side of the building, represents New 
York. He still will not take up any of the pieces of legislation that 
we passed in this House, some with bipartisan support, to deport 
individuals who are here committing crimes and to take action to undo 
the policies of President Biden.
  Just last week, there was another individual who committed murder. 
This was another illegal immigrant who was here and who committed 
murder in Harlem.
  Yet, these two incidents, one in Queens and one in Harlem, both 
happened in districts represented by colleagues here in this House on 
the other side of the aisle. Where are they? I don't see them putting 
pressure on Senator Schumer to pass meaningful legislation to undo what 
President Biden did by executive order.
  The President has the ability to undo it, and he continues to lie to 
the American public, telling them that he doesn't have the authority to 
do anything at the border. He had the authority to break the border. He 
himself passed those 60 policy changes. He himself can fix it.
  I speak today because the American people need to see what is going 
on. They need to know that this is a direct result of this President's 
policies and of my mayor's policy that we are going to continue housing 
individuals in converted hotels in New York that should be going to 
tourists. Instead, they are going to these illegal immigrants who are 
wreaking havoc.
  The person who shot these officers was stopped, by the way, because 
he was a suspect in a ring of robberies. He and others used motorized 
scooters to terrorize the community. They committed robberies, 
pickpocketed, and snatched purses.
  Why is my mayor forcing we the people, the taxpayers, to house 
individuals who are committing crimes?
  The New York City Council, also run by radical leftists, prohibits 
NYPD from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to 
deport individuals once they are arrested.
  We have had thousands of arrests of people in this country illegally. 
They go back to their luxury hotel rooms that we the people are paying 
for because the New York City Council doesn't think we should be 
cooperating to have them removed from this country. We leave them there 
to be able to commit crimes over and over again, 8, 9, 10 times.
  Mr. Speaker, read the New York Post, which does a good job of 
exposing it. People with multiple arrests are being released back on 
the streets to prey on New Yorkers. This is completely unacceptable.
  Chuck Schumer has to stop hiding behind a bill that nobody likes and 
wouldn't do the job. He needs to actually hold this President 
accountable.

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  Let's undo those 60 executive orders, which the President won't do on 
his own. We have a responsibility to protect the people of New York, to 
protect the people of this country, to protect the taxpayers of the 
United States, and to secure our borders.
  Enough is enough. Let's get it done, Senator Schumer. Do something 
meaningful over there in the Senate. Pass some of the bills that we 
passed here with bipartisan support.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to refrain from 
engaging in personalities toward the President and direct their 
comments toward the Chair.

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