Securing Our Border

Floor Speech

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Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, securing our border should be a bipartisan goal, and indeed House Republicans are dedicated to that. We had most of the elements of H.R. 2 in a bill last week that we just fell short on mustering, unfortunately. We did pass H.R. 2 separately earlier on to achieve that goal for the border. It is a comprehensive security package that would end the invasion at the southern border, halt the abuse of the asylum process, and strengthen border security.

Unfortunately, Senate Leader Schumer won't even bring it up for a vote over in the Senate. Why not?

His own New York Governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, called on Congress this weekend demanding a limit on who can come across and for more agents to catch illegal immigrants.

While Schumer should be listening to her, at least, every single New York Democrat who voted for these right-to-shelter laws and soft-on- crime open border policies needs to realize their policies have now had detrimental consequences.

It is not extreme to want law and order or to track who is coming into our country. If New York City doesn't have the resources to deal with these waves of illegals coming on to their streets, neither do the small border towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

The Senate must take up H.R. 2, and the Biden administration must actually take action on our border.

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