The Illegal Alien Invasion At Our Southern Border

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Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to address the disaster at our southern border. The grief that has been brought upon the American people in the past 3 years is unspeakable. It was brought on strictly by policy change.

It is the exact same 1,954 miles of border that we had under President Trump. We have the same equipment, the same men, the same women. We are spending more money. We spent $20 billion more last year than we did 3 years ago.

It is not about money. It is not about men or equipment. There is no enhanced desire by the cartels to make money. They traffic human beings and drugs. They have been doing it quite successfully for a long time. We had backed the cartels up very effectively by the time we hit 2019 and 2020 under the Trump administration, under Trump policies.

President Biden, once inaugurated, immediately began flipping those policies. This is what has happened. This is why you have had 12 million illegal crossings in 3 years. This is why you have 300,000 Americans dead, from opioids smuggled into our country across the southern border in the past 3 years. It is the number one cause of death for Americans 18-45 years old. We have never had that in the history of our country. It is drug poisoning. Our sovereignty has disintegrated at the southern border.

This body, the people's House, acted last year. H.R. 2, the strongest border security measure in the history of Congress, was passed in May of last year with Republican votes and delivered to the Senate. There it gathers dust. What we demand of our colleagues in the Senate that are run by the Democratic Party, what we demand from the Democratic- controlled White House is a clean vote on H.R. 2, the border security bill that was passed by the people's House in May of last year, delivered to the Senate in May of last year. We demand a clean vote. Let America see where does the Senate stand on border security. H.R. 2 is the answer for the crisis that we face, the heartache, wave upon wave of human misery that our Nation has suffered for the last 3 years at the southern border. I appreciate this opportunity to address this ongoing disaster, Mr. Speaker.

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