[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10508]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           IMMIGRATION CRISIS

  (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, a national crisis is happening right now 
in my home State of Texas. Thousands upon thousands of people from 
Central America are coming across our so-called southern border, and 
they are bankrupting Texas and wearing out our resources.
  A recent headline reads: ``Feds looking for babysitters to help with 
illegal immigrant kids.'' This is where our tax dollars are going. The 
border towns in Texas are literally overflowing with unaccompanied 
minors.
  More than 162,000 people from countries other than Mexico have 
crossed the southern border of the United States since last October. 
That is more than a 100 percent increase from the previous year.
  As my Democratic colleague Congressman Henry Cuellar said:

       If we don't send the message that they can't come and stay 
     here, this problem is going to continue.

  It is going to get worse. The answer is simple: secure the border.
  If we don't secure our border, our work in Congress is obsolete. Of 
course, the President is absent during this crisis, and it should be 
his number one priority: enforce the law of the land, and secure our 
border.
  In God we trust.

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