Touring the Southern Border

Floor Speech

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Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, every State in our country has been negatively impacted by the Biden administration's wide-open border policies.

Last week, I traveled to Cochise County, Arizona, with the Congressional Western Caucus and the Committee on Natural Resources to tour our southern border and discuss President Biden's border policy and how it is affecting our Federal lands and parks.

While in Arizona, my colleague, Representative Tom Tiffany, and I decided to follow up on the story that James O'Keefe had exposed that alleged the Casa Alitas Ramada hotel in Tucson was housing illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense.

Congress has the right, of course, to exercise oversight, as Federal funds prop up these locations and nongovernment organizations, known as NGOs, that are secretly housing these illegals, and Congress has a right to see how American tax dollars are being spent. We have that accountability.

Instead, we were denied access to even the parking lot, given no information, and they even called the sheriff's office on us.

We will be back. Congress must immediately investigate and hold onsite hearings and get down to the bottom of this.

These NGOs that wrap themselves in charity and in religion, in some cases, are making a lot of money off this and are actually undermining the security of our country by trying to move people as fast as they can into this process.

These NGOs must publicly testify before Congress, and more importantly, the American public, about how our tax dollars are being used and what for.

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