[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  BORDER SECURITY AND SYRIAN REFUGEES

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I share the concerns of the 
majority of Americans regarding allowing Syrian refugees into this 
country. Most important, I am worried that a terrorist could slip 
through, just like one of the terrorists involved in Paris.
  But we also can't lose sight of another vulnerability, a geographical 
vulnerability, our southern border, because our border is not secure. 
This President refuses to secure it.
  Yesterday, I spoke with the director of the Texas Department of 
Public Safety, Steve McCraw, and he made it very clear that we are 
seeing another surge at the border. We are seeing folks from Syria come 
across. This is troubling and wrong.
  The President must secure our border and protect our national 
security. If he refuses, we in this Congress must stop him by any means 
possible.

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