[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 126 (Wednesday, July 23, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H3562-H3563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      AMERICA'S BORDERS ARE SAFER

  (Mr. Mann of Kansas was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Mr. MANN. Madam Speaker, America's borders are the safest they have 
been in decades. Simply put, President Trump is the border security 
President, and no narrative from the national media or leftwing talking 
heads can change that.
  Border security was the number one issue on the campaign trail and is 
one of the main reasons that 77 million Americans elected him as 
President--promises made, promises kept.
  It is hard to believe that, in just 6 short months, President Trump 
has reversed 4 years of disastrous open-border failures from the 
previous administration. For 4 years, President Biden and Vice 
President Harris told the country over and over again that they simply 
did not have the authority or the ability to secure the border. The 
reality is that this could not have been further from the truth.
  President Trump has shown that the only thing we needed all along was 
a President who was not afraid to actually enforce the law.
  The facts speak for themselves. During the month of June, U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection saw the lowest number of encounters ever 
on our borders nationwide. Apprehensions along the border reached a new 
historic low on June 28, when CBP had the lowest number of 
apprehensions in a single day in agency history.

  Under the previous administration, 27,766 illegal migrants were 
paroled and released into the country in June alone. Madam Speaker, 1 
year later, zero migrants were paroled into the country--again, 
promises made, promises kept.
  This leadership is exactly what Americans voted for this past 
November, and House Republicans are united in equipping the President 
to continue securing our borders for good.
  In our One Big Beautiful Bill Act, we gave our law enforcement 
agencies the tools and resources they need to help secure the border. 
We allocated more than $46 billion to finish President Trump's border 
wall and ensure that our borders have a physical barrier to keep bad 
actors out. We invested in the CBP workforce, equipping the agency to 
hire more personnel to keep our borders secure and enforce the law.
  House Republicans invested in state-of-the-art border technology to 
stop the trafficking of drugs and humans across our border and to 
finally bring

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the fentanyl crisis to an end. This deadly drug has taken the lives of 
thousands of innocent Americans and made every State a border State--no 
more.
  America remains the land of opportunity that attracts millions of 
individuals around the world each year. A few months ago, I had the 
privilege of speaking at a naturalization ceremony for brand-new 
American citizens who took their oath to the United States and 
officially became fellow citizens. I was inspired by each of their 
journeys in becoming Americans and couldn't help but feel blessed to 
have been born in a land that so many people seek to call their home. 
At the same time, my heart felt for them.
  Of the 168 people who became Americans that day, some of them 
underwent a multiyear-long process to come here legally. Instead of 
rewarding their efforts, they watched for 4 years as a President and an 
administration that were asleep at the wheel allowed our immigration 
laws to be abused and taken advantage of month after month as millions 
jumped the line by coming here illegally. I am so glad that America 
overwhelmingly rejected that nonsense.
  Today, our country is more secure and safe than it has been in nearly 
half a decade. It turns out that common sense works after all, and I am 
grateful for an administration that chooses common sense over caving to 
radical, far-left activists.
  I thank President Trump for upholding his commitment to making 
America safe again and securing our border--promises made, promises 
kept.

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