[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 110 (Thursday, June 26, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H2989-H2993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SPECIAL INTEREST ALIEN REPORTING ACT OF 2025
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution
530, I call up the bill (H.R. 275) to require the Secretary of Homeland
Security to publish on a monthly basis the number of special interest
aliens encountered attempting to unlawfully enter the United States,
and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the
House.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 530, the
amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on
Homeland Security, printed in the bill, is adopted and the bill, as
amended, is considered read.
The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows:
H.R. 275
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Special Interest Alien
Reporting Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. PUBLICATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY OF
THE NUMBER OF SPECIAL INTEREST ALIENS
ENCOUNTERED.
(a) In General.--Not later than the seventh day of each
month beginning with the first full month that begins after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall publish on a publicly available
webpage of the Department of Homeland Security and submit to
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the total
number, and an identification of the nationalities or
countries of last habitual residence, of special interest
aliens encountered by the Department during the immediately
preceding month. Each such report shall also include the
following:
(1) Such number disaggregated by geographic regions of such
encounters.
(2) Specifications relating to whether such encounters were
made at land, air, or sea ports of entry, between ports of
entry, or in the interior of the United States.
(3) Identification of any such nationalities or countries
of last habitual residence that are covered nations.
(b) Inclusion.--The first report required under subsection
(a) shall also include the matters described in such
subsection for the time period from January 20, 2021, through
January 19, 2025.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Alien.--The term ``alien'' has the meaning given such
term in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1101).
(2) Covered nation.--The term ``covered nation'' has the
meaning given such term in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10,
United States Code.
(3) Special interest alien.--The term ``special interest
alien'' means an alien who, based on an analysis of travel
patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the
United States or its interests.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill, as amended, shall be debatable for
1 hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority
member of the Committee on Homeland Security or their respective
designees.
The gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Green) and the gentleman from
California (Mr. Correa) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Green).
General Leave
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all
Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their
remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 275.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Tennessee?
There was no objection.
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 257, the Special
Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025.
This legislation is a critical step toward enhancing transparency and
ensuring the Department of Homeland Security provides accurate and
timely reporting to the American people regarding encounters with
special interest aliens attempting to illegally enter the United
States.
As chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, I fully support
this effort to strengthen oversight and accountability within DHS and
safeguard our national security.
Under the Biden-Harris administration's dangerous open-borders
policies, droves of special interest aliens, nearly 2 million, and many
of them leveraging illicit smuggling networks and irregular migration
patterns, flocked to our borders and exploited catch and release
policies to access the interior of our country.
The American people deserve to know not just how many entered our
country and when, but where they came from.
Fundamentally, this bill simply requires DHS to publicly report on
how many special interest aliens were encountered, their countries of
origin, and their last country of residence before trying to enter the
United States illegally.
The genius of this bill is that DHS can simply add it to the
statistics it already reports on a monthly basis. This
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avoids any burdensome or duplicative reporting requirements for the
department.
Also, by simply reporting the number and nationality of SIA
encounters at our borders, it has no impact on the integrity of ongoing
anti-terrorism investigations and efforts of Federal law enforcement.
Moreover, access to accurate information is critical for Congress to
effectively conduct proper oversight, promote national security
measures, and protect our American communities from the threats that
special interest aliens pose.
I simply cannot overstate the importance of passing this legislation,
especially given the recent activity in the Middle East.
I am proud to be an original cosponsor of this bill, and I am
grateful to the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene) for bringing
forth this important piece of legislation and for the support of the
following cosponsors: Mr. Higgins, Mr. Guest, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Crane,
and Mr. Brecheen.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, this bill is not good for national security. That is
plain and simple.
This bill would require Customs and Border Protection to publish
sensitive detailed national security information on a monthly basis.
This information would give the bad guys around the world real-time
updates on DHS operations and targeting.
Let's be clear. A special interest alien, an SIA, does not mean
someone who is a terrorist. It just means that someone's travel
patterns indicate a need for further scrutiny. It means they need more
detailed questioning to determine what is going on.
During markup and during the Rules Committee meeting, we heard from
my Republican colleagues how the Department already publishes
information about known and suspected terrorists. That is true.
However, this bill demands that DHS post far more detailed information
about special interest aliens than DHS publishes about known suspected
terrorists.
Today, DHS publishes suspected terrorist information on a monthly
basis, broken down by Border Patrol and ports of entry. No other data
is published.
Here, my colleague from Georgia wants DHS to publish more information
about special interest aliens than they publish about suspected
terrorists. For special interest aliens, she also wants information
published in real time about where they are from and where they are
encountered.
If Ms. Greene's bill mirrored what we report on known and suspected
terrorists, I would be happy to support it. However, that is simply not
the case here. By publishing this information in real time, bad actors
would be able to tell who is getting advanced screening from CBP. They
will also be able to tell which locations have been the most successful
in interdicting those migrants that need enhanced screening.
Bad actors will adjust their operations in response and try to avoid
extra screening, which will only hurt our national security.
Please note, Mr. Speaker, DHS has never publicly released these
numbers on a real-time basis because this information, these numbers,
are essentially sensitive data we don't want to be made public. As the
chair just stated, DHS already has the ability to publish these numbers
if they were to choose to make these numbers public.
Mr. Speaker, if it is safe to do, then why isn't DHS already doing
it?
I would say, Mr. Speaker, let the security professionals decide what
to publish and when. That is their job, not ours. Ours is to legislate.
They have the ability to make decisions now. Let them make these
decisions.
I ask my colleagues to let the Secretary, again, make the decisions
and publish the information they deem safe and correct.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the
gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene), who is the author of this piece
of legislation.
Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in favor of
my bill, the Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025, an essential
piece of border security transparency legislation.
A special interest alien, or SIA, is a non-U.S. person who, based on
a DHS analysis of travel patterns, may pose a national security risk to
the United States or its interests. My bill would require the
Department of Homeland Security to publicly release monthly reports on
the number of special interest aliens encountered at our borders, their
countries of origin, and where they were encountered. This bill would
be retroactive to January 20, 2021, so that we can get a better sense
of the catastrophic national security impacts of the Biden-Harris
administration's open-borders policies.
I will say that is likely why Democrats are fighting this bill so
hard.
DHS publicly reports detailed information on encounters and seizures,
including CBP encounters of individuals on the terrorist screening
dataset, better known as the terrorist watch list, which is an even
more targeted and specific number than the number of SIAs. However,
missing from DHS reporting is information on SIA encounters. Instead,
Congress and the American people have been left only with random,
incomplete announcements periodically released by DHS officials, or
through leaks to the media.
Similar to the information released on the terrorist screening
dataset, my bill would require DHS to report general encounter
information on special interest aliens and would not include any
personally identifiable information.
No matter how many times my Democrat colleagues say it, there is no
personal information released.
In fact, senior DHS officials, like the former Border Patrol chief,
have occasionally put out some of these numbers on social media and
elsewhere.
Public reporting of SIAs will increase the transparency and
accountability that are critical to the health of our constitutional
Republic. Congress has the authority and responsibility to provide
transparency to the American people, which is exactly what my bill
does.
I would argue the American people pay our paychecks, so they deserve
to know the truth.
The Biden-Harris administration's disastrous policies placed the
United States in an extremely vulnerable national security position.
Under Biden and Harris, our sovereign borders became revolving doors
for illegal aliens, including an untold number of murderers, rapists,
and potential terrorists who hate our country and want to cause harm to
our people.
Over the past 4 years, CBP faced an unprecedented number of special
interest aliens from the 26 countries that the Department of Homeland
Security has determined pose the greatest national security and
counterintelligence threat. Those encountered included individuals from
adversarial nations, including the People's Republic of China, Iran,
Afghanistan, and Syria.
The Biden-Harris administration's intentional disregard for our laws
and breakdown of national security resulted in U.S. Customs and Border
Protection encountering over 1.7 million special interest aliens. Many
of these individuals were swiftly processed and released into the
interior under the Biden-Harris administration's catch and release
policies. The American people deserve to know who our government is
encountering at the border and where they came from while they are
attempting to invade our country illegally.
Given the ongoing events in the Middle East, this legislation is
essential for Congress to conduct congressional oversight over the
special interest aliens encountered invading our borders. During the
Biden-Harris administration, the Border Patrol apprehended over 1,500
Iranian nationals illegally crossing the Southwest border between ports
of entry.
Of those, Biden and Harris admitted 729, almost one-half. We don't
know where they are now, and we don't know what they may do.
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With Iran threatening Americans with retaliatory strikes on our
homeland, President Biden and border czar Kamala Harris created an
opportunity for our adversaries to gain access to our Nation and wreak
havoc when called upon.
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I am proud that the Trump administration supports this important
piece of legislation, and I urge my colleagues on both sides of the
aisle to please support this increase in transparency and
accountability within our government.
Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
This legislation simply puts our national security at risk by forcing
DHS to hand over parts of its playbook on how it stops potential actors
from entering the United States. It is all going to make us less safe.
This bill would require Customs and Border Protection to publish
sensitive national security information on a monthly real-time basis.
We are not talking about personal identifiable information, despite the
author's claim. We are talking about releasing who CBP is looking for,
targeting, and where those advance interviews are actually happening in
real time.
This essentially gives the bad people the opportunity to coordinate,
triangulate, and take advantage of the situation, essentially to know
what our playbook is.
We all support transparency and accountability at DHS--that is our
job here in Congress--but not at the expense of tipping off terrorists
or criminal organizations as to what our playbook is.
Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman
from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson), the ranking member of the Committee on
Homeland Security.
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from
California (Mr. Correa) for yielding and for his leadership on the
Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee of the Committee on
Homeland Security.
Mr. Speaker, the Department of Homeland Security already vets
everyone it encounters entering the United States. Most of these
encounters are routine, but some of these encounters require more
investigation based on a dynamic assessment of the security situation.
Now, DHS does not publicly release who is getting enhanced screening
or where it may be happening right now, simply because: First, merely
being singled out for enhanced screening does not necessarily mean an
individual poses a threat or has done something illegal; and, second,
doing so would let bad actors know who DHS is on the lookout for. That
information, in other words, is law-enforcement sensitive.
H.R. 275, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's tipping off
terrorists act, requires DHS to make public information it has long
deemed law-enforcement sensitive. That is because this bill requires
Customs and Border Protection to publicly report who is getting extra
screening and where that screening occurs in real time, which tips off
terrorists and other bad actors.
Under administrations of both parties, DHS has never regularly
published who it has considered a special interest alien. That is
because who is considered special interest changes regularly based on
DHS' security assessments.
This bill lets bad actors know in real time which nationalities are
more likely to get enhanced screening and exactly where CBP has been
stopping these migrants. Criminal organizations could then use this
information to adjust their operations and try to avoid enhanced CBP
inspections.
However, Democrats are for transparency, as Mr. Correa has already
said, and there is nothing stopping DHS right now from publishing these
numbers.
The Trump administration also could publish this data right now if
they wanted to but continue to choose not to because the folks on the
ground understand that security threats posed by such public reporting
is bad.
If Republicans want the administration to publish information on who
is getting enhanced screening, they should work with DHS to do so in a
way that does not jeopardize Homeland Security, not with a messaging
bill, which, if signed by the President, could tip off terrorists.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this dangerous
bill.
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the
gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins).
Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, what is it that the Democrats
don't want the American people to know? It is a legitimate
consideration that the citizenry from sea to shining sea should ask
themselves right now. What exactly is the problem?
They say again and again, oh, DHS could do this if they wanted to.
They already report to us. We are saying exactly that: The special
interest alien data should be reported to Congress along with the rest
of the data.
Why would the Democrats take a big stand? This is the former chairman
of Homeland Security and current ranking member, who has been on the
committee for a long time. This is a rare appearance on the House floor
to push back against about this.
Americans should think about this. Democrats are pushing back on this
because they don't want the citizens of America to know what special
interest aliens, who participated in suspicious travel patterns, came
into our country illegally in 2021, '22, '23, and '24. Because you know
how many are coming in in 2025? Zero are coming in. That is how many.
That is because we have an executive branch that has been enforcing
American law since January 20 of 2025.
We, the people, demand to know what is the data of so-called special
interest aliens. These are suspicious-travel-pattern, illegal
immigrants coming into our country. We want to know: Where did they
come from? How did they get here? Where were they before? We want to
know all the data that we allegedly collected. Congress has a right to
know.
Why would DHS need Congress to codify their authority to give us this
data? It is because of activist radical judges that stop the executive
branch. Every day Americans have to read about that garbage, a radical
judge stopping the elected President from performing his role as
Commander in Chief and President of the United States.
The executive branch needs Members of Congress to perform like my
friend and colleague, Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has done by
presenting this law. I am a proud original cosponsor. The President
needs this legislation to mitigate against the radical judges that will
try to stop him from releasing through Congress to the American people
the data from 2021, '22, '23, and '24 of what suspected illegal aliens
came into our country that fit this category.
Now, across the country and in this body, most Americans know I am
very plugged into law enforcement. I get calls every day from these
guys, boots on the ground across the country, including deep in Federal
law enforcement, and they support this law. Don't tell me that Federal
law enforcement doesn't want to do this or it is bad for the country in
some way. That is smoke. That is smoke that is being put out by
Democrats to protect themselves from the impact of the reveal of the
truth of just what kind of people that fit this category were allowed
into our country. They were waved in for 4 years. It was stopped almost
immediately in January of this year.
I am clearly in full support of the bill. I am proud to be an
original cosponsor of the bill. We are going to bring this bill to the
floor, and they are going to call for a recorded vote. I am glad they
will. I hope you do call for a recorded vote because I want you on the
record pushing a red button.
Mr. Speaker, I support this bill, and I urge my colleagues to support
it also.
Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I am listening to this debate, and we are not debating. We are just
talking. Again, for the third time I am going to say: We support
transparency. We support this information being made public if the
Secretary so deems it to be made public in the interest of our national
security. That is all we are saying.
We are Members of Congress. We believe in transparency,
accountability, and oversight. That is why folks on this side of the
aisle are writing countless letters right now to the Secretary of
Homeland Security demanding information so that we can do our job. That
is transparency.
I don't know when the last time was that my colleagues were at the
border. I was just in San Ysidro a couple weeks ago. I can tell you I
went to the secondary inspection. Fentanyl is still coming through that
border. People were still breaking through that border. The fact is
that border is not secure. That is why you have 2,000 U.S.
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border agents and 20,000 Mexican border agents trying to work on this
issue.
This opposition to this legislation is based on national security. We
are saying if this is information that the author thinks is not
sensitive, let the Secretary of Homeland Security make that decision to
present it. This legislation isn't necessary. You don't want to mandate
it. You want to let the anti-terrorist experts make that decision.
Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman
from Illinois (Mrs. Ramirez), a leading member of the Committee on
Homeland Security.
Mrs. RAMIREZ. Mr. Speaker, of course I rise in opposition to H.R.
275.
Before I get into the conversation of the bill that we are debating
today, I want to respond to this whole thing about transparency that I
continue to hear my colleagues talk about. They talk about smoke on
this side, and they are all about transparency.
Well, if Republicans are really all about transparency, why is it
that Members of Congress can't show up to a detention center and do
their congressional oversight and see what is going on in those
detention centers?
It seems like Republicans are okay with transparency when it is
convenient to them, but when it is about Members of Congress,
regardless of their party that they are a part of, going to one of
these detention centers or holding centers, they are not okay with
transparency. We have heard that pregnant women are sleeping on the
ground being starved and people are wearing the same clothing for days
because they are at a holding center where they should have been going
through due process.
Unfortunately, there is no transparency there because what they end
up saying is, send an email or transparency only works when it is
convenient to the Republicans.
I just want to say it is really hypocritical to hear my colleagues
here talk about transparency when they seem to be hiding violations of
human rights every single day.
I want to be honest about the bill we are debating right now. This is
not a bill of national security. If it were, it wouldn't propose to
make sensitive security information public.
No, this bill is just Republicans' latest attempt to give the Trump
administration another anti-immigrant tool so that they can continue to
do the fear-mongering that they know how to do so well. It is just
another list that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Republicans and the
sponsor here can use to justify their unlawful, abusive actions.
You want to disappear people from California? Just say that new
members of the latest criminal organization were found crossing the
southern border. You want Americans to surrender their rights? Well,
fearmonger and tell them that a special interest alien from a criminal
organization is operating a cell in their neighborhood.
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The Trump administration has already demonstrated to us that they are
comfortable, under the guise of national security and protection,
abusing every tool and system that we have. The administration has
weaponized every well-intentioned tool that this body has authorized to
make immigration more humane. What makes us think that this list will
be any different?
I refuse to hand over greater authority and power to DHS given all
the ways that they are running rampant through our States and cities,
breaking down doors and kidnapping mothers, children, and law-abiding
neighbors who have contributed to our communities for years.
They have proven to be completely untrustworthy and downright hostile
to oversight, accountability, and compliance with the rule of law, so
they can't be trusted with additional tools and mandates with which
they can violate our rights.
Let me be very clear: For Trump and Noem, today's report is
tomorrow's anti-immigrant, fascist tool.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote against this bill.
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I will address some of the comments that I have heard
from my colleagues and shine a little bit of light of truth on some of
this.
My colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Correa), mentioned
that this would serve as an incentive or intelligence to the bad guys.
This reports where they are from and the country they came in from.
There are no methodologies discussed on how we are apprehending people.
We are not giving away national security information about how our
agencies operate.
Reporting that an SIA is coming from a particular country or has a
particular nation of origin that they started from is not an incentive
to anyone. In fact, it is a disincentive to those individuals. For
those governments to know that we have an eye on it is a good thing,
not a bad thing.
As far as a playbook, it was mentioned earlier, I think, Mr. Speaker,
that we were giving away our playbook. Again, not a single method is
reported. Not a single process is reported. None of that information is
out there. We are not talking about releasing how we do business. We
are talking about whom we have apprehended.
It is ridiculous to suggest that this is somehow a threat to national
security. I spent 24 years of my life as an infantry officer, a
physician, and a special operations physician with our Nation's highest
tier-one level assets. I can tell my colleagues that I now sit on the
Committee on Foreign Affairs and have for years. I have served on HASC.
No one cares more. I was prepared to give my life. My son currently
serves defending this country.
This is not a threat to national security, and I suggest that people
take the word of people like me over that of some activist.
This incredible mantra about starving people at detention facilities,
well, I have been to these detention facilities. I have seen the stacks
of snacks and crackers, the meals, and the healthcare that they get,
and this after subjecting themselves willfully to, in many cases, an
arduous trek, while wearing the same clothing, I will add. The travesty
of that was pointed out earlier. Mr. Speaker, I can't tell you how many
days I sat in the same set of BDUs downrange for the country.
Let's look at what is really happening at these ICE detention
centers. It is absolutely a liberal, Democratic mantra to just throw
that out there as somehow a reason not to support a piece of
legislation like this. It is absurd.
Do you know what? The American people are waking up to this, and that
is a beautiful thing. I agree with my colleague Mr. Higgins. I hope my
Democratic colleagues do call for a vote.
I don't know how many times we can correct the record on this
kidnapping of a mother and children with cancer. The mother elected on
two occasions when offered the opportunity--she had a court order
saying that she had to go. Yes, she had been here a while. The process
is long. It takes a while to get the court to do it.
When the court decides, that is due process. Due process has
occurred. The court has ordered her removal. They were offered: Do you
want your child to have healthcare here, or do you want to take them?
We will take them with.
It is false to suggest, in this image that is being painted by the
left, that ICE burst down the door, grabbed a child with cancer, and
deported them.
Again, the American people are a lot smarter; hence, the results of
the last election.
I just wanted to make a few comments, Mr. Speaker, about the stuff I
have heard today that just infuriates me and infuriates the American
people.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I will make it clear to my colleagues and those who are
watching this that the Secretary already has the power to disclose this
information. All we are saying is to let the Secretary and the
terrorist expert decide what should be disclosed in real time. What
goes on at the border in real time is the key here.
We support full transparency and accountability of the Department of
Homeland Security. That is why a lot of us, including yours truly, were
going to those ICE detention centers in my district for the last 2
weeks. I could
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walk in, and I had a good relationship with those individuals. Then,
about a week ago, I was told: You can't come in anymore. You need a 7-
day notice.
According to the law, there is no notice that Members of Congress
need to give to do an inspection of an ICE holding facility.
They are not doing anything wrong? Okay, so then what is wrong with
me coming in and looking at the ICE facility? Transparency, Mr.
Speaker, all we are asking for is transparency.
The chairman talked about those cases and due process. I can't speak
to those specific ones, but I can speak to what is going on in my
district right now. The reason we want more transparency is because I
want to make sure that the President of the United States knows what is
going on. He promised to go after criminals, those visa overstays,
those individuals with orders of deportation, and those individuals who
came in, in the last 2 years.
That is the minority, the smallest number, of the people who are
actually being apprehended. I say that because the President came out
last week and said that we don't want to go after farmworkers, dairy
farm workers, and hospitality workers. The President said that we don't
want to go after these individuals. We want to go after those three
categories.
Mr. Speaker, I will tell you that, back home right now, most of the
people who are being rounded up are workers in factories and workers in
farms who are picking our crops.
That is part of the American economic strength. The President needs
to know that his immigration policies, as being implemented right now,
are not what he is saying and not what he deems is good for this
country.
That is what transparency and accountability is about, oversight,
making sure what they are saying up top is what actually is happening
at the ground level.
My colleagues may have seen this story just last week. A gardener at
Home Depot gets picked up. He has been in the United States for 25
years. He didn't even have a traffic ticket.
Do you know what the sad part is, Mr. Speaker? Three of his sons are
marines in the U.S. Marine Corps.
The President needs to know that he is deporting individuals of mixed
households whose children are in the U.S. military.
I am not quite sure--actually, I am certain that is not what the
President wanted to happen. That is what our oversight is, to let him
know and the public know exactly what is going on in our districts.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my
time.
Mr. Speaker, I will close with this. The American people deserve to
know where the special interest aliens entering the United States are
coming from and where CBP is encountering them.
This legislation proposes transparency that is vital to the public's
awareness while maintaining the confidentiality of the individuals
encountered and the strategies used by CBP.
My colleague mentioned the term ``real time.'' Wouldn't it have been
nice to know in real time about the Iranians who are now in this
country?
The administration has, I think, successfully removed well over 100
in just the past 7 days, 1 of whom turned out to be a sniper from the
Iranian special guard, the Quds Force. Just open the door and let
everybody in.
Wouldn't that have been great to know? That would have been nice to
have some real-time information for the American people.
What is interesting is--it is almost laughable--I actually saw a
Democratic pundit on television talking about how President Trump
shouldn't bomb or shouldn't have bombed Iran because the terror cells
that are here might get activated. Well, Democrats let them in.
Those are the same folks who say that Americans shouldn't have guns
to defend themselves, but I digress.
This legislation is especially prevalent following the Biden
administration's failure to secure the border and protect the American
people.
Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to support this effort to
defend the American people and maintain transparency, and I yield back
the balance of my time.
Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 275, the
Special Interest Alien Reporting Act.
This bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to publish
monthly reports on the number of special interest aliens attempting to
unlawfully enter the U.S., including specifications on the encounter
location and the alien's country of origin.
During President Biden's tenure, we saw an unprecedented number of
special interest aliens from China, Iran, and Russia.
A special interest alien is a person who poses as a potential threat
to the United States. This is alarming and a national security risk.
Last Congress, I asked the Biden Administration to be transparent
about encounters with known or unknown terrorists entering our country.
Their answers were unsatisfactory.
Publishing the number of special interest aliens who have been
granted entry to the U.S. would educate the public on the risks the
U.S. Government is subjecting its citizens to. It would also allow the
public to hold the government accountable for its actions.
Border Patrol had produced small iterations on this data for 2016 to
2018 and it would be helpful to re-start this publication at a more
frequent cadence.
I urge you to support H.R. 275.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bost). All time for debate has expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 530, the previous question is ordered on
the bill, as amended.
The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. CORREA. 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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