In Support of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

House Republicans failed to discuss the facts about the border security. Since May, the administration has removed or returned or expelled more than 500,000 individuals who entered the country illegally nationwide.

This is the highest total of expulsions in the last decade: It has arrested 14,000 smugglers. It has seized more than 43,000 pounds of fentanyl. It has confiscated thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, and meth.

It could do so much more with the proper support and resources from Congress, but Republicans don't want to give that support. They don't want to discuss effective border policy. Under the previous Republican administration, Border Patrol was an absolute joke.

Instead of righting the wrong, Republicans want to blame others for their mistakes. It is failed leadership, and I know voters are watching.

They are at the behest of the twice-impeached former President of the United States, who has asked them to keep this subject alive so he can win.

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