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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY LEADS TO HEIGHTENED BORDER SECURITY
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, as I speak, unprecedented
tsunamis of illegal aliens swamp Customs and Border Patrol resources on
America's porous southern border with Mexico.
What is the socialist Democrat response to this dangerous, life-
threatening invasion? Today, they help make our border security crisis
worse by pushing legislation that gives illegal aliens amnesty that, in
turn, entices even more illegal aliens to cross our border.
What is the result of past socialist Democrat amnesty efforts? In the
first half of fiscal year 2019, the number of illegal alien family
units captured by Border Patrol roughly tripled over the previous year.
Worst yet, the number of captured illegal aliens topped 100,000 in each
of March and April. Further, the number of illegal alien caravans has
skyrocketed from two in fiscal year 2017, to 13 in fiscal year 2018, to
104 large illegal alien caravans of 100 or more individuals, totaling
17,242 illegal alien captures in just the first 6 months of fiscal year
2019.
Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost recently testified to the Senate
that, ``Our apprehension numbers are off the charts. . . . We cannot
address this crisis by simply shifting more resources or building more
facilities. It is like holding a bucket under a faucet. It doesn't
matter how many buckets you give me if we can't turn off the flow.''
Thanks to socialist Democrats' betrayals of the American people, the
crisis is not just centered on illegal aliens from Mexico and Central
America. For the first time ever, on May 31, Border Patrol agents
captured a large caravan of illegal aliens from Africa, including
places like Angola, Cameroon, and Congo. Also, on May 31, Border Patrol
agents captured the largest group of illegal aliens ever captured at
one place: 1,036 illegal aliens at the El Paso, Texas, border.
Let me be very clear: Illegal alien amnesty only begets and
encourages more lawless illegal alien conduct.
Socialist Democrats' callous disregard for American citizens plagued
by illegal aliens demonstrates just how radical socialist Democrats
have become. However, if you understand the underlying reason for the
socialist Democrats' dangerous open borders policies, the inaction and
callousness make sense.
About 70 percent of households with an illegal alien in them live off
welfare and on the backs of American taxpayers. Since illegal aliens
are heavily dependent on welfare, once they get the amnesty and the
American citizenship socialist Democrats desperately seek to bestow,
that makes them reliable socialist Democrat voters. After all,
socialist Democrats are the party for taking much-needed money from
hardworking American taxpayers to pay for welfare for those who prefer
to vote for a living rather than work for one.
Quite frankly, socialist Democrats don't give one twit about the
thousands of dead Americans who die each year because of illegal alien
homicides. Socialist Democrats care not one twit about American blood
on their hands. Socialist Democrats covet political power, and they see
open borders, amnesty, and illegal aliens voting as the way to get it.
That is why so many socialist Democrat cities, like San Francisco,
are passing laws that allow illegal aliens to register to vote, and
vote, in American elections, regardless of how badly this denies
American citizens control over their own governments.
This insult to American voters is so astonishing, it deserves
repeating. Socialist Democrat cities, like San Francisco, are passing
laws that allow illegal aliens to register to vote, and vote, in
American elections, regardless of how badly this denies American
citizens control over their own governments.
Mr. Speaker, I yearn for the day that socialist Democrats put the
interests of American citizens above the interests of illegal aliens,
above the socialist Democrats' craving for political power.
Unfortunately, that day is not today.
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