Washington, DC – Congressman McClintock this morning delivered the following remarks on the House Floor discussing illegal immigration. Mr. Speaker: Last year, we achieved operational control of our southern border for the first time in generations. Would be trespassers knew they would be turned back and so never started the perilous journey.

On his first day in office, Joe Biden cancelled the border wall, ordered ICE NOT to faithfully execute the laws, and cancelled the remain in Mexico policy for asylum claims. This sent a powerful message throughout the world that America’s borders were wide open.

So, we are now four months into an experiment that will test how long a country without borders can survive.

The numbers speak for themselves. The week of the 2020 election, scarcely 100 family units illegally crossed our border. By the week of the inauguration, 1,100 did. By the last week of March, it was over 14,000.

In February, the Border Patrol encountered roughly 100,000 aliens illegally crossing our border – about the size of South Bend, Indiana. By March, that number had grown to over 170,000 – about the size of Salem, Oregon. Last month, the number reached nearly 180,000 – the population of Providence, Rhode Island– a 900 percent increase over April of last year. Thirty-eight percent are released into our country.

In April, ICE deportations fell to their lowest number in history. Felons the law requires to be deported are instead deliberately released into our neighborhoods.

In the last two months, I joined delegations led by Congressmen Jordan and Biggs across the Southern Border. In the Rio Grande Valley sector, we watched one night as hundreds of illegal aliens crossed the border with impunity and entered a Disneyland-type queue. After a brief interview, groups in the company of small children were taken directly to transportation hubs to be taken anywhere in the United States they wanted to go – without even being given a notice to appear in immigration court. Unaccompanied minors were taken to a holding facility where they were placed in cattle-pens – one unit designed for 33 people had over 500.

After a few days, they were transferred to HHS shelters. NO effort is made to safely return them to their homes – EVERY effort is made to place them in the United States – often with family and friends who are themselves here illegally.

The President just transferred $2 billion to accommodate this flood that he has created, taken from funds Congress appropriated to rebuild the emergency medical reserve in our national stockpile and fund COVID testing. Americans last.

In the San Diego, El Centro and Yuma sectors, we saw the nearly completed border wall built by the Trump Administration, made useless because of small construction gaps that can’t be filled because Mr. Biden has forbidden it. They just calmly walk through them. We saw one group taken into custody from Romania. Another group of about 20 were from Cuba, Russia and Armenia. From all over the world, people are flying into Mexico on tourist visas, making their way to border towns and then walking through the gaps to enter the United States illegally. In California, one officer told us their orders were to process as many illegals into the country as fast as possible.

From its polling, Gallup estimates there are 42 million people now living in Latin America and the Caribbean alone who intend to come to the United States if they can. And now they are. We are literally witnessing the beginning of a mass migration of historic proportions – one that no civilization in human history has ever survived.

One border patrol agent warned us that every community in America is about to become a border town. Every American will feel it as classrooms are filled with non-English speaking students; as gangs proliferate; as criminal illegal aliens are released into our communities; as hospital emergency rooms are packed with illegals demanding basic medical care; and as a desperate labor market as it is flooded with low wage illegal labor, meaning lower wages and fewer opportunities for working Americans.

This is not accidental. This administration is pursuing a deliberate policy to fundamentally change the culture, electorate and founding principles of this nation. And it is working. And it will continue as long as the people responsible for it remain in public office.

History is littered with the ruins of nations that failed to control their borders. Whether ours soon joins them depends on Americans taking back their government before it is too late.

Remarks as prepared for delivery

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