Addressing the Border Crisis

Floor Speech

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

Mr. Speaker, earlier today, Democrats ignored President Biden's inhumane border crisis and passed two amnesty bills. The bills actually encourage illegal immigration.

Here is the way it works: The cartels have operational control of our border. They do. No one crosses the southern border unless the cartel says it is okay. The cartels are advertising now. NGOs funded by this government are advertising down in the Northern Triangle states in Mexico: ``Come north.''

They give brochures how to get here. And what happens is caravans are forming now. But more than that, we have got people lining up at the borders to come across. It is a treacherous journey.

Mr. Speaker, parents are giving their kids to coyotes to bring forward. And these people have no respect for human life. No respect. And that is because of the policies of this administration. And I will tell you what I heard someone on the floor of the House state today, and I am going to quote it.

They said, ``This bill is not amnesty. It does not grant anybody amnesty. It allows individuals to get right with the law and become legal workers in the United States.''

That is the definition of amnesty. Look it up in Merriam Webster.

Earlier this week, Secretary Mayorkas admitted, ``We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than at any time in the last 20 years.''

Let that sink in: More than any time in the last 20 years.

And the answer to this by our Democrat colleagues is to pass amnesty.

Mr. Speaker, we hear moving stories that all Dreamers came to the United States as little children, graduated from high school as valedictorians and are now working as doctors saving lives.

If that were true, why did these bills include waivers for illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes?

Why didn't these bills include language to require that illegal aliens who will get amnesty at least have graduated from either high school or college?

The contents of the bills the House passed today do not match the rhetoric of the open borders crowd. We can spend hours talking about the heartfelt stories, what happened to people, kids who I have seen, who have been rented out and used multiple times to take advantage of these policies. Time doesn't allow for me to do that, but we must continue to fight this horrible scourge because it is a humanitarian crisis.

Don't paper over it claiming that you are compassionate when you are enticing people to put their lives in the hands of people who don't give any consideration for human life.

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