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Border Needs More Resources

Floor Speech

Date: March 1, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. LaLOTA. Madam Speaker, the border is not secure. Our officers are doing everything they can, but they need more resources. They need better leadership.

The President must take the border crisis seriously because 100,000 Americans died from fentanyl poisoning last year, and we know that fentanyl is coming from China through the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republicans in the House understand this. We stand ready to increase physical barriers, to hire more Border Patrol agents and immigration judges, to implement new technologies, and to support our officers on the front lines of this crisis.

As a member of the Homeland Security Committee, I am committed to working with all of my colleagues to make sure that our country is safe, our border is secure, and our law enforcement has the tools it needs to be successful. Our great Nation depends on it.

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