Secure the Border Act of 2023

Floor Speech

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Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to make it clear that Biden's border policies are anything but compassionate.

Nearly 300 suspected terrorists have been caught trying to cross our border this year, and those are just the ones we caught. How many actually made it through?

As we speak, American border towns are being flooded with unvetted migrants that have nowhere to go. City streets are becoming homeless encampments. Farm land is being trampled.

Migrants from over 100 countries, including China and Russia, are paying up to $15,000 a piece to be smuggled across our border by criminal cartels. If they can't pay, migrants are forced to work off their debt. The administration is creating a program of either drug mules or indentured servants.

Many of these migrant children are brought here by false advertisements of free passage in their countries. The Biden administration has lost 85,000 children. This is unacceptable. These are the things that should keep Americans awake at night.

Our border is dangerous, not only for the American people whose communities are being pumped full of drugs and crime, but also those seeking to cross illegally who turn into slaves or drug mules.

The numbers are clear: 85,000 children have been lost; 1,000 migrant bodies found along the southern border; 120,000 fentanyl deaths in our country, and the numbers continue to rise. Where is the compassion in that?

President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas must answer for the fentanyl deaths, the illegal encounters, and the unaccompanied children we have lost.

A closed border is a compassionate border, and this week, Republicans have brought a real solution to the table by introducing H.R. 2. I urge all my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill.

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