The Illegal Alien Invasion At Our Southern Border

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

It is my pleasure to join him in this Special Order to talk about one of the most important existential crises that we face in the country today, and that is our border crisis.

Let's rephrase that. It is the Biden border crisis.

So we have 9 sectors along the southwest border, each one 100 to 150 miles wide and they cover many tens of thousands of miles into the interior.

The Tucson sector, which is now the hot spot in the last 5 months, has had more than 312,000 encounters. In that small area, you have more than 2,000 a day who are being interdicted, and those are the people who surrender. It might be one of the most remote border areas on the southwest border on the Tohono O'odham Reservation at the San Miguel gate.

It might be in Lukeville where, if you were paying attention, Bill Melugin sent to the world video footage from just a few days ago where the cartels had cut a hole in the fence and dozens and dozens of illegal aliens were coming in through that hole.

That is what is happening. What are the numbers? Those are the numbers. The numbers reach into the millions every year.

That doesn't include the got-aways, both known and unknown. What countries are they coming from?

I remember well being down in Yuma, and 25 men of military age came across. I said: Where are you from?

Well, we are from Russia.

We got the Russian interpreter on the phone, those of us from Congress.

Then they said: No, no, we are from Ukraine.

We actually happened to have access to a Ukrainian interpreter.

Then they said: Oh, well, actually we really are from Russia.

I have met them from Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Burkina Faso. Every country, 180 countries are represented in that pool of people coming into our country illegally.

What are the results? My good friend from Georgia has given you a litany of people who have been basically injured, killed, maimed, robbed, raped by people who have come into this country illegally.

If you were to hear the left, they would tell you, oh, wait a second, you are saying everybody coming across, you are stigmatizing everyone.

No, we are not stigmatizing everyone. What I am telling you is, if these people weren't here who aren't supposed to be here, none of this would have happened. I have friends who have lost children, killed by illegal aliens.

What do Americans think of this? What do Americans think of this? Eighty-five percent of them said this is the most important issue. What do the left do on their little TV shows that few people watch? They laugh. They laugh that anyone would say that that is an issue in Virginia or in Georgia or in Montana or anywhere because they simply don't care about American life.

Mr. Speaker, I join Representative Clyde in calling upon my colleagues, the Republican colleagues, to understand that we have got to demand enforcement from this regime. The way you get it is you actually leverage spending. That is what the Founders gave us.

I call on my colleagues to leverage this minibus, this DHS CR to make sure we get enforcement. I also call upon the Speaker to bring up our border security bills every day, bring one up every day. Let's vote on one every day. Let's give these guys an opportunity to show that they really care about the border.

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