Denouncing the Biden Administration's Immigration Policies

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Mr. YAKYM. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this resolution, which denounces the Biden administration's failed border policies, and I do so because of this chart next to me.

I have sat here and listened to the debate of who is responsible and why. Let's look at the facts and the data. This chart shows southwestern border crossing encounters over the first 38 months of the last six Presidential terms. It doesn't say whose line it is, but if you guessed the Biden administration is the red one at the top with nearly six times the number of illegal border crossings, then you would be correct, Mr. Speaker.

The seeds of this crisis were planted on day one when 64 executive orders were signed by President Biden that undermined border security and encouraged illegal immigration. What followed has been an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration.

Instead of acknowledging this failure, we get denial. Biden administration officials wrote off the crisis as ``cyclical'' and ``seasonal'' right about here, 11 months into his term.

Biden administration officials continued to insist that the border crisis was just part of the normal ``ebbs and flows'' at 35 months into his Presidency.

President Biden only finally admitted that the border is ``not secure'' all the way up there at the top, right at the 36-month mark.

What changed, Mr. Speaker, from ``ebbs and flows'' to just 2 weeks later that the border is ``not secure''?

Mr. Speaker, there were no laws that changed during that time, just the will to enforce them.

The Biden administration created this crisis at the border with the stroke of a pen and these 64 executive orders, and, Mr. Speaker, he can end it with the stroke of a pen.

Be that as it may, there is no leadership. Instead, Biden administration officials treat border policy like a hot potato because it is politically thankless, and it shows.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, Mr. Gonzales, for introducing this resolution that methodically and thoroughly documents the Biden administration's border failures, and I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''

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