Providing for Consideration of H.R. Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies Act of and Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Denouncing the Biden Administration's Immigration Policies

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I know he is probably as surprised as I am to be accused of taking orders from the former President and following whatever the former President says.

If the gentleman from Massachusetts wants to take a flight down to Mar-a-Lago, he is welcome to tell the former President that the gentleman from Texas and the gentleman from Kentucky take orders.

The reason that matters is because I had the President's former ICE Director, Tom Homan, under oath in the House Judiciary Committee, and I asked him that question.

I said: Were we articulating the massive problems in the Senate bill prior to the former President having commented publicly?

The answer under oath, of course, from Mr. Homan was: Yes.

That is because we all knew that the bill was a failed bill. We all knew that it was a prop.

The gentleman from Massachusetts makes crystal clear what the actual game is. The gentleman from Massachusetts gives up the game today. The gentleman comes to the floor of the House and says: ``Republicans own this issue now.'' That is an important phrase: ``Republicans own this issue now.''

What is really happening is my radical progressive Democratic colleagues who believe in wide-open borders, allowing mass release of immigrants into the United States that resulted in the death of thousands of Americans through fentanyl or through the danger of what we saw happen to Laken Riley, those radical progressive Democrats are realizing the American people are caught up to them. They recognize the reality that it is their policies that are resulting in the death and destruction of the American people.

What are they doing? They are putting forward bills that have no chance of succeeding and legislation that would not solve the problem; would codify mass releases; would not deal with unaccompanied alien children; would not deal with any of the issues with parole that the President is using to violate current law, which requires case-by-case analysis to process people in the United States; mass releases under parole; and violation of law that resulted directly in the death of Laken Riley.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle know this, so they are trying to use a bill that they put forward, which won't solve the problem and will make it worse, to deflect and push blame politically to Republicans.

That is why the gentleman from Massachusetts on the floor of the House today said, ``Republicans own this issue now,'' because they are purposely trying to obfuscate the truth. The truth is Laken Riley is dead because the President of the United States, Joe Biden, who stood at that dais last week and lectured the American people, made the decision, with the full support and execution by Alejandro Mayorkas, to mass release people into the United States that they know contained mass numbers of criminals, terrorists. People from all over the world, including the Chinese Communist Party, have been released into the United States.

Laken Riley is now dead. Aiden Clark is now dead. Kayla Hamilton is now dead, beaten to death in her own home. Lizbeth Medina, a Texan, is now dead, beaten to death and murdered in her own home, found in a bathroom by her mom instead of seeing her perform her cheerleading in a parade.

That is the truth. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle know it, and they are now trying to deflect.

Mr. Speaker, I support this resolution.

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