Crisis At the Southern Border

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Mr. TIFFANY. Mr. Speaker, Kamala who? In all seriousness, it is unfortunate that Vice President Harris has not fulfilled her mission to be the border czar. It is awful.

Did you see the news today in regard to the free phones that the White House Press Secretary talked about today, free phones for migrants?

Think about it. I was down in Panama almost a year ago and went to the Darien Gap. Who did I see? IOM, the International Organization for Migration. Where do they get their money? They get a lot of their money from the United Nations. Who puts the most money into the United Nations? Yes, Americans do.

Back home on the farm, we used to refer to this as--my colleague from Texas just said how many, how many? I would say to you also: How much?

We used to refer to it as eating your seed corn. Americans pay an international organization to send debit cards for these people to take themselves up the Panama pipeline all the way to the southern border. Then you pay for a bus ride to get them to the airport. Then you pay for an airline ride: Philadelphia, Baltimore, wherever. They are going around the country.

Then you pay for the education, the free education they are going to get.

You pay for the healthcare.

That is what you Americans are paying for every single day for over 2 million people, and it is about to get worse.

To highlight how it is going to get worse and how obtuse this side of the aisle is, we are sitting in the Committee on the Judiciary today creating another loophole in the Virgin Islands. There is another loophole that is being created for visa waiver privileges, something that we saw in the Mariana Islands that was created about a decade ago under the Obama administration where they allowed parole for people to be able to come in, Chinese nationals.

There were maybe, like, eight births that were being done on those islands prior to this change that was quietly made in the law. It accelerated to--there were, like, 600 births of Chinese nationals that happened in the Mariana Islands as a result of this loophole.

If you want to see the reporting on it, The Wall Street Journal did an excellent job. It was one of our intelligence agencies in 2017 that really dug into this.

Yes, here is this huge loophole, and they want to now create it in the Virgin Islands. That is what we are voting on tonight in the Committee on the Judiciary.

They want to create another loophole, and they are, like, oh, it will only be a few people. Do the American people believe that?

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Mr. TIFFANY. Mr. Speaker, every State is a border State, including my State of Wisconsin.

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Mr. TIFFANY. Mr. Speaker, so if I may extend my point a little bit. Think about it. Tonight, we are debating, in the Judiciary Committee, creating another loophole. It shows how unserious they are, how they do not have the interests of the American people at hand. They want to create another loophole, and this one is in the Virgin Islands, not in the South Pacific.

People are going to be able to be funneled in here by the thousands as a result of that loophole--just another way to bring people into this country to compete against hardworking Americans who have to not only try to make their way up the scale, the economic ladder here in America, but now, with inflation, they have to fight that, too.

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Mr. TIFFANY. Mr. Speaker, the chairman could lead the way. He could lead the way.

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