Focusing on Republican Priorities
Floor Speech
As vice chair of the House Republican Conference, it is shaping up to be a busy, productive week for House Republicans. I am looking forward to hearing from my colleagues to discuss the issues our Conference is focused on this week, including the crisis at our border, support for Israel, and investigations into the Biden family's alleged illegal financial dealings with foreign nations.
We have an energized and diverse conference, eager to make the American Dream possible for the next generation.
My team and I are ready to help Members shine and deliver their message straight to their constituents and the American people.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative McClain. I appreciate the comments and I appreciate the clarity and work that the Oversight Committee does on this issue.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Florida who has a strong and clear message.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for a passionate speech, laced with facts that have been identified for months and months and months. I appreciate the communication.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, waiving regulations on Federal land is a dangerous precedent, and this piece of legislation is very, very important.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank Representative Babin for his remarks.
Mr. Speaker, our Texas delegation, as we are all in border States and as we see this piece of legislation this week is geared toward what is going on in New York, as we are all border States, I am from Utah, other States, we relied on the testimony and the experience from our Texas delegation, our Arizona delegation particularly, they have been through the worst of it, and we appreciate that.
We will continue to hear from our Texas delegation and someone who has been a very consistent voice on this.
Van Duyne).
Ms. VAN DUYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because our Nation is in crisis. One cannot overstate the absolute border disaster and national security threat that we have been living under as a direct result of Biden's, Mayorkas', and the Democrats' deliberate actions.
None of this is an accident. On day one, they got to work eliminating successful Trump border policies that had us at the lowest levels of illegal immigration in years, actually, probably illegal immigration in our history. From that first day, the Biden administration made clear that they would not enforce our laws and that they would not protect our country. They did this knowing the consequences.
They ignored Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement whose officers warned that these actions would create an unprecedented disaster and dangers for Americans.
Guess what, Mr. Speaker?
That is exactly what happened.
President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have opened our borders to more than 10 million illegal immigrants, including millions of known got-aways and God knows how many potential terrorists and narco gang members into our country. By the way, that is more than the population of 38 States.
Mr. Speaker, we have had enough. Cities all across America are being overrun. Mexican cartels own the southern border. They are causing tens of thousands of fentanyl deaths in our country ushering in a new era of human slavery and crushing our cities and towns.
We are feeling the pain of Biden's border crisis not just in New York City where the border crisis is defunding the police department and other city services, but all across the Nation where it is driving up crime rates in our communities, letting fentanyl kill our children, and allowing terrorists into our Nation.
What is happening in New York City should be a wake-up call for cities all across America, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. Texas right now is being particularly hit hard and continues to have to fight its own Federal Government to be able to take care of its citizens.
Our Nation is less safe because our borders are not secure, and President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas continue to make things worse. It is clear. They have no regard for the law, they don't want to secure our borders, and they don't care about keeping us safe.
If they cared about keeping Americans safe, why would they want our public spaces, which are paid for with taxpayer dollars, to become massive encampments for unvetted illegal immigrants, many of whom are indebted to dangerous and violent cartels?
Although this national security bill is an important reform, it is clear that as long as Secretary Mayorkas remains in office, our border will remain unsecured and vulnerable to human and drug trafficking.
Taxpayers in cities all across the country are footing multimillion- dollar bills. Hundreds of thousands of families are losing loved ones in fentanyl-related deaths.
The American people deserve better. I stand firm in calling for Secretary Mayorkas' impeachment. I urge the Biden administration to work with border States like Texas to offer the support that we need to keep our communities safer.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her remarks and her clear communication and the heartfelt pleas to solve this issue. There are so many simple policies. If we put them in place, they are wins for everybody. They are political wins, and they are policy wins. We don't understand why we don't take to see what has worked well in the past and try to reimplement it.
Mr. Speaker, we welcome another border State.
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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, he makes one really important point and I highlight this quite a bit: We, as a Republican majority, have to so many times force President Biden to do very commonsense things and that is so important. His comments actually highlight that well.
Mr. Speaker, I thank you for the opportunity to share these messages. I thank my colleagues for being here to communicate such clear messages on such important aspects of legislation that we are going to be focused on this week.
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