Mr. Speaker, we keep hearing about action that needs
to be taken on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. I have spent
a lot of time down on our Nation's southern border, and I was quite
pleased, last year, when Border Patrol friends told me information
indicated that, after President Trump was sworn in, the number of
people coming into the United States illegally slowed to a trickle,
that it was a dramatic decrease, and that continued for awhile. But,
during the summer, as discussion about DACA started coming out, I was
told, and, apparently, the numbers indicate, the surge began anew. What I have heard over the years is anytime anyone in Washington
starts talking about amnesty, legalization of any kind for people who
have come into the United States illegally, there is a fresh surge
across our border. I have been told by border patrolmen, they hear people talking who
have come in illegally--whether before processing, during processing,
after processing, during the holding procedure, it is made very clear,
since they are willing to come into the country illegally in violation
of United States laws, that they want to get here before there is any
legalization. And it makes sense, as I am told, that they are willing
to come in in violation of U.S. law. They are also willing to say that
they came in a previous time and, you know, backdate it, different
identity, different date they came in, whatever is required in order to
get legal status.
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People who come to the US illegally are willing to lie to get legal status.
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