[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H5197-H5200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BORDER CRISES FROM SEPTEMBER 11 TO TODAY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 9, 2023, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Roy) for 30 minutes.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, as I come here to the floor tonight, we all 
recognize that today is September 11, a date that will never sound the 
same, a date that now means something totally different than it did 
prior to 2001.
  We have seen the continued recognition of those lives lost. We saw it 
in New York today. We saw it in Pennsylvania. We saw it at the 
Pentagon. We saw the flag unfurled.
  I give special recognition to my good friend, Senator Brian Birdwell, 
a State Senator from the State of Texas. A dear friend, Senator 
Birdwell was perhaps the individual closest to where the airplane hit 
the Pentagon in 2001, and he survived.
  Senator Birdwell was burned across every part of his body. He was 
hauled out, taken to the hospital. He didn't think he was going to make 
it. He was praying. Assuming that he was leaving, he was saying good-
bye to his family. He survived. He is a great patriot.
  Mr. Speaker, if you have a chance, look up his video called ``I Am 
Second.'' Senator Brian Birdwell tells the story--it is about 7 to 10 
minutes, I think--and it is well worth your time.
  It is a testament to his faith, and it is a testament to his 
patriotism. It is a testament to all those who went through those 
terrible attacks that day.
  Those of us who remember them, we remember them personally, closely. 
We had friends who were affected, and it reminds us, of course, of what 
happens when we leave our country wide open for attack.
  We look back at September 11, and we tend to get wrapped up in the 
horrors of the collapsing buildings, the horrors of a plane flying into 
the Pentagon, but we don't spend a whole lot of time talking about the 
fact that the individuals who carried out that attack overstayed visas 
to stay in our country

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because of our very broken system of border security.
  Yes, ``border security'' I use broadly to include those individuals 
who we permit to come into our country and are released into our 
country on a visa or some other way, and they are in our country and 
then carry out harm.
  We remember every year the almost 3,000 Americans who died in that 
southern part of Manhattan or in a field in Pennsylvania or in 
Arlington, Virginia, but where was the recognition today for the 75,000 
Americans who died from fentanyl last year alone, 25 times the number 
of people who died on September 11? Where is the recognition of the 
thousands of persons who have been targeted by criminals released onto 
the streets of our country?
  Just yesterday here in this complex, we had in the House Judiciary 
Committee the mothers of three Americans killed as a direct consequence 
of Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Secretary 
Alejandro Mayorkas, their coordinated effort, their conspiracy to 
ignore the laws of the United States and put dangerous individuals on 
our streets that result in the deaths of Americans in real time as we 
speak.
  Alexis Nungaray is a 27-year-old young Texas woman who chose life 12 
years ago when her daughter was born, her daughter, Jocelyn, who was 
murdered. She was bound, raped, gagged, had her body thrown into a 
creek in Texas outside of Houston by two Venezuelan men who were 
released into our country in direct violation of our laws under parole 
on purpose.

                              {time}  1930

  Rachel Morin was murdered in Maryland. Her mother testified 
yesterday. Kayla Hamilton. We have had other stories like Laken Riley. 
There are dozens. There are hundreds. There are so many stories that I 
had my office produce a report that we put out last week titled: 
``America Invaded.''
  In that report, if you look at what is listed, you will find two full 
pages of 54 examples of Americans, headline stories, who have been 
killed, raped, assaulted, all of these, and that is just the tip of the 
iceberg. Where is the commemoration for those Americans?
  In the wake of September 11, what did we do in all of our infinite 
wisdom? We created a 250,000-person bureaucracy at the Department of 
Homeland Security. We didn't used to have this massive bureaucracy. Now 
we do.
  Has that made us any safer or more secure?
  If you are watching this as an American, do you feel more secure?
  If you are an American in Springfield, Ohio, do you feel more secure 
with 20,000 Haitians who have been dumped into your community?
  Do you feel more secure if you are in Buffalo, New York, where just 2 
weeks ago, a man was finally apprehended by ICE after having been 
released into Texas from Peru, and we now know that he is wanted for 23 
murders in Peru. We released him into the United States.
  Every one of these examples I am talking about were specifically the 
result of having individuals released into the United States from other 
countries who then carried out a vicious attack, a vicious crime, a 
vicious murder.
  We had a witness yesterday testify to the rape and murder of a 
beautiful, little, 11-year-old girl. I think her name is Maria 
Gonzalez. If not, I will correct the Record, but I believe that is her 
name. She was killed, again, by someone who was released here into the 
United States who then preyed on her. Where is the commemoration?
  I am going to be very blunt. I appreciate that we commemorate 
September 11 every September 11. That is a good thing to do. I have 
heard the bell now ringing for these 23 years.
  Who is ringing the bell for Jocelyn Nungaray? This is a serious 
question.
  Kamala Harris was up where the World Trade Center once stood along 
with a bunch of other people, including former President Trump, current 
President Biden, former Mayor Bloomberg. Who was commemorating Jocelyn?
  Will they be there next June--I think it was June--for the 
anniversary of her mother's pain when she woke up on Monday morning and 
her daughter wasn't in the house, and she ran down to the convenience 
store where there were police sirens and tape to find out that her 
little girl had been murdered? Who is commemorating that?
  Who is paying attention to that? She is a devastated young mother.
  Like September 11, where we failed, where we allowed visa overstays 
to stay in this country and then grab planes and fly into buildings, 
Jocelyn Nungaray is dead today because of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden 
and radical, progressive Democrats who don't give a whit about whether 
your streets are safe, America.
  Wake up. Wake up and know what the elections are about. Wake up and 
know what is happening in your country because your leaders in this 
country are failing you. Worse than failing you, they are purposefully 
endangering you. There is no other way to put it.
  I am tired of listening to this garbage. Come up here to Washington. 
They say: Oh, why can't you just sit here and get along and go across 
to the other side of the aisle and shake hands and say: Why can't you 
guys just come together and solve problems? I will tell you why. I have 
done bipartisan bills. I have them right now, and I have friends on the 
other side of the aisle.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle, almost to a man and a 
woman, don't give a damn about the borders being wide open because, if 
they did, they would do something about it. That is the truth.
  We should start acting like that is the truth. We should stop 
pretending that we don't have such a wide gulf between that side of the 
aisle and this side of the aisle.
  We have a choice right now. What world view are you choosing for your 
kids and your grandkids?
  Again, continued tough love for my colleagues on this side of the 
aisle. For decades, we have been complicit by allowing the chamber of 
commerce to use cheap labor as their excuse for wide-open borders, 
which set the stage for what we are dealing with right now.
  Well, those days are over. When all of the corporate whores around 
this town come begging for their tax breaks, I want them to come 
explain to the American people why we should do it when their 
boardrooms are chock full of radical, progressive Democrats and 
liberals who want ESG and want their quarterly reports to do well so 
their stock portfolios grow, and they come in here begging for tax cuts 
so they can get richer while America gets screwed.
  If you are living in Springfield, Ohio, right now, you don't give a 
damn about the guys in the corporate boardroom over in New York City, 
in Manhattan, or maybe in the tall buildings in Cleveland. You don't 
care about how rich they are getting, but you care that there are now 
20,000 Haitian migrants sitting in your community, that your 
grandfathers and your grandmothers and your moms and your dads worked 
hard to build and now is being trashed.
  I could promise you, if you are like those young women who were 
testifying at the Judiciary Committee yesterday, who were migrants 
themselves--a young woman talking about her dad who came here from 
Mexico and fought and worked hard and didn't take government handouts. 
He said he was going to do it the right way and that the American Dream 
wasn't about being given something from government. Then he had to sit 
here and watch his granddaughter get murdered because of my colleagues 
on the other side of the aisle, every single one of them, own it.
  Every single one of them should march their happy rear ends down to 
Texas and beg for forgiveness. Beg for forgiveness from Alexis Nungaray 
and Alexis Nungaray's father because Jocelyn Nungaray got raped, bound, 
gagged, murdered, by the people released by Democrats in the White 
House.
  Let's not pretend that there isn't a mile of difference between 
Republicans and Conservatives and Democrats and radical Progressives. 
There is a mile of difference.
  I am not going to sit here and pretend, let's all get in a room and 
talk to each other nicely, pat each other on the back and say: Oh, man, 
can't we just have these halcyon days of old, have a beer like Tip 
O'Neill and Ronald Reagan?
  Not if you don't believe in America. Not if you don't believe in 
sovereignty. Not if you don't believe in the rule of law. Not if you 
believe it is okay to release 5\1/2\ million people into our country, 
utterly disregarding how many criminals you are releasing and allowing 
Americans to get slaughtered.

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  Why don't you get in the car, drive up here to Aberdeen, Maryland, 
and talk to Kayla Hamilton or Rachel Morin's family.
  Why don't you beg for forgiveness, get on your knees in the House 
Chamber and say: I am sorry that I was so focused on my own political 
well-being that I would endanger the American people, because that is 
what you are doing.
  Finally, my colleagues on this side of the aisle, in getting H.R. 2 
passed, has finally forsaken the chamber of commerce's death grip on 
the Republican Party saying: we need our cheap labor.
  We haven't even scratched the surface.
  We haven't even begun to do what is necessary to take our country 
back because, when President Trump talks about mass deportations, he 
means it. I mean it. I hope to hell Republicans on this side of the 
aisle mean it because 5\1/2\ million people dumped into the United 
States without vetting, without knowledge of who the hell they are. We 
have the House Judiciary Committee recognizing 99 people on the 
terrorist watch list released into the United States, and 35,000 
Chinese nationals this year, and the year is not even over.
  Who are these people?
  I flew out to Aurora, Colorado, last week. I went to an apartment 
complex area, met with the people who were there, talked to one of the 
residents of the building, talked to the tenant who put a camera on her 
door; she is not lying. Yet, we have Colorado Democrats who are trying 
to say it is a lie that Venezuelan gangs are running those apartment 
complexes. They get on Twitter, and they say: Not true. It is a figment 
of their imagination.
  That is why I flew to Aurora, talked to the woman. She walked me 
through the fact that the manager of the apartment complex isn't there 
anymore.
  The manager of the apartment complex left and fled and feared for his 
life. For 2 months, there was no manager there. They put the cameras 
up. The cameras then showed what the entire world has now seen, which 
is armed thugs running around the apartment complex. We are told they 
smashed doors down, changed the locks on the building.
  We had a businessman who was there who helped the woman move out and 
said he basically stepped into the Third World for a number of hours 
while he was helping her move out.
  This is coming to every street in America. Wake up.
  We play up here, playing Tiddledy Winks, talking about CRs, and 
nobody even knows where the hell they are. We go around talking about 
all these different things. Let's get together and pass a resolution 
and a messaging thing this week.
  What are we going to do to finally just say no?
  You don't have to take this, you know?
  We are supposed to be a free people. We are supposedly endowed by our 
creator with certain inalienable rights--life, liberty, and the pursuit 
of happiness. We established this government in the very preamble of 
the Constitution.
  What does it say? It lays out the purpose of the government being to 
secure the blessings of liberty. It is not to give crap away. As I have 
said before on the House floor, we are not supposed to be the United 
States House of free stuff. We are not the United States Congress here 
to give you a check. We are killing the American Dream.
  Congress, the administration, are actively killing the American Dream 
in real time. We voted on another bill for another program that spends 
more money that we don't have. We rack up more debt. We increase the 
interest. At no point are we actually securing the country.
  We have been at war for a quarter of a century in some form or 
fashion. I don't even know how many trillions: 8, 9? I have lost count 
on how many trillions we have spent engaged in conflict, directly in 
Iraq and Afghanistan, only to tuck tail and run when Biden and the 
current brass bailed and left those 13 heroes stranded to die.
  How many trillions? How many American men and women were injured, 
lost their legs, lost an eye, PTSD: 80,000, 100,000, or more with PTSD?
  How many suicides a day?
  We have been at war for a quarter of a century.
  In this town, we can't even fight for you, the American people, to 
actually secure you with a secure border, with secure communities, and 
with an economy that isn't blown to hell by irresponsible government 
spending.
  Do you want to know why? In the false name of defense and in the 
false name of securing this country because the defense world tells me 
every year, if I don't vote for one of these bloated spending bills, we 
won't get a new submarine.

                              {time}  1945

  We won't get a new carrier. What the hell are we trying to defend? 
What is left of the United States to defend? A school where I can't 
send my child to pray to God without spending $20,000 a year on top of 
the taxes I pay. A school that my friend sends her sixth grader to with 
a trans music teacher asking her kid to do some dance in class. Yes, it 
is a true story.
  Is that what we are defending with carriers and missiles and endless 
wars? Are we defending a country where Jocelyn Nungaray gets raped and 
murdered, or Rachel Morin gets raped and murdered because we release 
dangerous migrants into the streets of America?
  Since I literally released this 40-page report last week, I can't 
even keep up with the news stories since we put it out.
  In Virginia, just 30 miles from here, a teenage girl was abducted by 
a Peruvian illegal immigrant, arrested, who had been released into the 
interior by this administration. A Palestinian migrant accused of 
beating a Jewish New York man, released into America because he claimed 
he wouldn't be safe.
  We had two of the people in Aurora, Colorado, where I said I went to 
that were apprehended by ICE after they had been released into the 
country, arrested, released on bond because we can't detain them 
because our entire policies have been turned on their head.
  We sit here in September, and we have this grand debate about whether 
we are going to do a continuing resolution for 75 days or 6 months or a 
year. Will we include the SAVE Act to ensure that American citizens 
vote? Heaven forbid that we stand up and say, only American citizens 
should vote in American elections. It is an 80 percent issue.
  We have legislation that would fix it. We had a hearing yesterday in 
which Secretaries of State, experts on the matter, all acknowledged you 
need the law to guarantee that only American citizens vote in American 
elections.
  Now, we are having a debate about that. What can we put forward on 
the floor? With all due respect to some of my conservative colleagues 
that gag on an add. I can't support a CR because 12 appropriations 
bills must be passed. Okay. Five have been passed. Now, what?
  We actually have to figure out how to proceed. I think maybe we could 
just fund the government for a few months and try to make sure 
elections are secure, or let's pick a different fight.
  Why don't we actually stand up and do something to make this country 
better? If we do get a CR to December and if Republicans do win the 
elections in November, what the hell are we going to do with it? Will 
we fight? I would like to go to the American people over the next 60 
days and say, yes, we are going to fight, and you can believe us this 
time.
  I would like to say that Republicans will be bold enough to do what 
our Democratic colleagues have done repeated times in the last two 
decades, which is risk your precious, risk your election certificate.
  Stop starting off every Congress saying, well, if we do this, we risk 
our majority makers. What good is it to be in Congress if you don't do 
something with your election certificate and then go sell it to the 
people you represent as being the right thing to do?
  I have been in tight districts. I have done that. Every single 
constituent that I represent are fed up. They are fed up with a country 
that they no longer recognize. They love their country, but the 
government that they have entrusted to maintain that country, that 
their fathers and grandfathers fought, bled, and died for has been 
turned into something they no longer recognize.
  I am glad that we have people today on September 11 commemorating 
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lost. I am glad that we show patriotism. I am glad that we put the flag 
on the Pentagon, but until we recognize that every single day because 
of our policies in this Chamber and in the other Chamber and at the 
other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, Americans are suffering with high 
inflation, with houses that they can't afford, and with their own 
people getting murdered and slaughtered on the streets or in their 
homes.
  I cannot imagine just 2 months ago, Alexis Nungaray waking up and her 
12-year-old daughter not being in the house, only to find out she is 
dead after having been raped while the mom was sleeping in the house. 
This has all happened because Kamala Harris and all of her cronies in 
the administration chose and still choose, as I speak, to release 
dangerous individuals on the streets of our country.
  I am sure I am going to get some sort of admonition for directing 
some of my venom to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue; but the fact 
is, the leaders of this country need to be warned. We better get busy 
fixing this country or the American people are not going to take it 
anymore, and I will be right there supporting them.
  I am sick and tired of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle not 
showing up and not doing what we said we would do. I am particularly 
sick of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle daring to lie to 
the American people that they somehow believe in securing the border 
when they put forward legislation that would have codified the very 
parole policies that have, since they introduced the dang bill, been 
used to slaughter and kill innocent American citizens.
  This is not a negotiation. You don't negotiate for your safety and 
your security. You just get busy doing it. I can promise you that 
whatever happens with this election, I am going to be a loud voice for 
the State of Texas to stick their middle finger up at this godforsaken 
city and say we are going to secure our State. All of the other people 
in all of the other States be damned because we have an obligation to 
do it.
  When our people are dying and our people are hurting and we are 
spending $13 billion of our own money, where the hell is this Congress 
and this Senate backing up the people of Texas? When we joined this 
Union, we were promised something, and we are being denied it.
  On behalf of every single one of those moms that come to my office in 
tears because their kids died from fentanyl or because their little 
girl was raped and murdered, and for every one of those tombstones that 
I drive by in Arlington coming to office every day, who either gave or 
risked the last full measure of devotion, they didn't do it for this. 
They didn't risk it for this.

  They risked it to live free and secure and have opportunity in a 
country that is sovereign and safe. It is time for us to do our job, 
and it is time for the American people to do their job this fall and 
make sure that the right leaders are running this country.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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