[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H4483-H4484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                NEGATIVE NATIONAL SECURITY CONSEQUENCES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Tennessee (Mr. Rose) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the negative national 
security consequences of 3\1/2\ years of President Biden's open-border 
policies.

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While we hear President Biden and his allies boast about a so-called 
drop in illegal immigrant encounters in recent weeks, the number of 
national security threats resulting from this administration's policies 
continue to mount.
  According to the Department of Homeland Security's own threat 
assessment for this year, illegal drugs produced in Mexico and sold in 
the United States will take more American lives than any other threat 
we face.
  Further underscoring the threat our country faces due to the 
President's open-border policies, we learned 2 weeks ago that the 
Department of Homeland Security has identified more than 400 illegal 
immigrants that have entered the U.S. over the last 3 years as 
``subjects of concern.'' They are subjects of concern because they were 
brought here by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network, according 
to sources who spoke with NBC News.
  These unnamed officials report that 150 of these individuals have 
been arrested, but the whereabouts of many more are unknown. We also 
don't know whether the money earned in this human smuggling operation 
is funding ISIS activity.
  A couple of weeks prior to this story, NBC also reported that U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested eight men from Tajikistan, 
also for suspected affiliation with ISIS, in three major U.S. cities. 
This turned out to be an entirely separate ISIS-affiliated human 
smuggling network.
  Mr. Speaker, these are just a couple of examples from recent weeks. 
We face many, many more national security threats that are a direct 
result of open borders and a refusal to uphold existing immigration 
laws in this country.
  More than 350 illegal immigrants who are on the terror watch list 
have attempted to cross into the United States since President Biden 
took office. More than 1.8 million people have successfully evaded 
Border Patrol. Hundreds of thousands of unknown individuals have been 
admitted into the U.S. on parole with no way of tracking many of these 
individuals. This widespread abuse of parole authority was a key factor 
in my vote to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It has truly 
paved the way for countless instances of crime across this country.

  The President's recent executive order is far too little, far too 
late. It doesn't go far enough to treat these threats to our safety and 
security with the seriousness that they merit. The action, however, 
does prove what I have been saying and arguing for months, that the 
President has and has had the authority to end this crisis at our 
border. It also highlights the fact that our Commander in Chief waited 
3\1/2\ years before taking any action to curb the unprecedented flow of 
illegal immigrants into this country.
  This isn't hyperbole. These are facts. As sobering as they may be, I 
fear they will persist as long as President Biden or whoever is making 
decisions at the White House is in the White House.

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