[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 4, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            BORDER SECURITY

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, 1,231. That is how many days it has 
taken President Biden to do something--anything--about the humanitarian 
and security crisis that has consumed our southern border and is 
engulfing our country.
  Here is another number: There are 154 days until election day. In 
other words, the Biden administration has waited nearly its entire term 
before lifting a finger to address the open borders anarchy that it 
invited. In that amount of time, the CBP has reported more than 7.8 
million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border, and 
that is not counting the 1.6 million known ``got-aways.''
  Fentanyl poisoning is now the leading cause of death among American 
adults between 18 and 45. The lethal pipelines that began with Chinese 
chemical makers flow north across a broken U.S.-Mexico border.
  And perhaps most disturbing is the increasing number of individuals 
on the Terror Watchlist who have exploited the border chaos to set foot 
on American soil.
  With an election just months away, the President hopes that an issued 
Executive order will demonstrate that he cares about this crisis and is 
trying to fix it, never mind that his order would still allow more than 
900,000 illegal aliens to come in every year at the southern border. 
This is on top of the half-million illegal parolees President Biden 
intends to continue waiving into the country. Combined, that is more 
than the population of 10 States. It is a new Dallas, TX, every year. 
This is like turning a garden hose on a five-alarm fire. And the 
American people are not fools. They know that this play is too little, 
too late.

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