Washington D.C.--Congressman John Rose took to the House floor to deliver a speech on the ongoing failures of the Biden Administration to deter illegal immigration and secure our southern border.
The full speech, as prepared for delivery, is below:
Madam Speaker, the crisis on our southern border continues to worsen with each passing day.
Just last month, Customs and Border Protection released their latest figures that showed immigrant encounters at the southern border have increased 61% to 164,973 as compared to last year. That is more than double the population of Cookeville, Crossville, and Lebanon, Tennessee, combined!
President Biden and his administration have caused this crisis and should be held responsible. On his first day in office, he halted construction on the southern border wall. A month later he signed multiple executive orders rescinding President Trump’s immigration policies. In June of last year, he ended the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. Now, the Biden Administration has announced they are ending the Title 42 policy that allows for the quick expulsion of illegal immigrants.
Rescinding Title 42 will encourage another surge of illegal immigrants at our southern border and put even more strain on Customs and Border Protection having trouble keeping up with already record levels of immigrant encounters.
You can watch the speech here
Original source can be found here.
