Madam Speaker. I support full comprehensive immigration reform. but todays vote on this supplemental appropriation bill is to provide funding to ICE. Border Patrol. and other agencies to deal with the humanitarian crisis on the border. an area that I represent. an area where I live. an area where 42.000 out of the 58.000 unaccompanied kids have crossed. The policy change in this bill is to get rid of a loophole in the 2008 law that the smugglers in Central America and Mexico have taken advantage of. All due process and legal protections are left intact under this proposed bill.
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