Speech #CREC-2017-01-04-pt1-PgH88-3_t7

They don't want to be gaslighted. They want to know what is the truth so that they can start making hard preparations for taking office on January 20. An article, December 30, from Paul Bedard from the Washington Examiner says that the Department of Homeland Security says 94 percent of deportations are people illegally here, terror threats, or gang bangers. The CBP--border patrol--reports assaults on border agents have skyrocketed 231 percent in 2017. So not only has this President's rules of engagement gotten about four times more Americans killed, our military members killed in Afghanistan, in the same amount of time as Commander in Chief George W. Bush had, in addition to the rules of engagement getting our people killed four times faster than under Commander in Chief Bush, but also the assaults on our own agents have gone up 231 percent just in this year--in 1 year. We are getting our border patrol harmed. Another article by Chris Tomlinson in Breitbart: ``600 `Underage' Migrants Turn Out to Be Adults.'' I mean, I have seen that in the middle of the night down on the border. People coming in, switching off Xeroxed indications they were going to use for their identification: This is who I am. For whatever reason, they would look at their thing and switch out as to who was going to be who. They weren't able to vet those people, but they were still ordered to in-process them anyway. This article from Michael Patrick Leahy, December 7, reported that Somalia refugees were arriving in the United States at the highest rate ever in the first two months of fiscal year 2017, which would be October and November. So just astounding when America was making very clear we need to protect American citizens. It is not just the people in this room, as we did yesterday, who take that oath, but the President takes that oath. You have got cabinet members that take the oath, yet they are not doing their jobs. People are getting killed. 85,000 refugees under Obama, but less than 10 to the District of Columbia. So, apparently, let's put those refugees in your backyard. We certainly don't want them in Washington, D.C.'s backyard, apparently, according to this administration. Then it is pretty amazing, but just 10 States resettled more than half of recent refugees to the United States. Naturally, way more than anywhere else was California and Texas. The Daily Caller reported that the ``State Department claims no one used sham visas from fake embassy.'' Yet, we have seen hundreds and hundreds of people that--the report showed--had been given citizenship by mistake when they were supposed to have been deported. It doesn't seem like a very innocent mistake when it is that egregious. Back in December, The Washington Times reported that the ``Obama administration fails to check immigrants against FBI databases, approves citizenship'' anyway. The Afghan refugee program has not been totally successful. A report here, Afghan refugee in December was arrested for rape and murder of a top EU official's daughter. So, apparently, that was not working out so well. But that was in the country of Germany where you have a like- minded leader in Angela Merkel, who wants to defeat terrorism, as our President does, with love and compassion.