scan or download it, c-span now, your front row seat to washington. anytimanywhere. >> this thursday, the senate expected to hold a procedural vote on a b border security bill that failed t gain enough support this year. that wouldmpow the president to shut down the border under specific circumstances. republican senators ted cruz and marshall spoke about the pending legislation, calling it a sham with no chance of passage in the house and t reinr security bill but faced an objection from majority ip dick durbin. >> mr. president, this week, majority lck schumer is bringing up the failed jected in february. senate all on a political ploy to give

vulnerable democrat senators up for reelection,ou hide their real views on the border. that faile border bill nothing, but an fig leaf that et do something about border security, but wouldn't actually secure the border. in fact, if it became law, it would make theworse. this democrat bill would codify it would put into federal law joe biden's policy ofeleasing illegal aliens into this country. that i tau of the open border crisis we have right now. it would normalize 5,000 illegal immigrants a da that works out to 1.8 million illegalig year, every year, year after year forever. it would provide immediate work permitsss the border

and it would provide many of them with taxpayer funded lawyers. only is the bill by design utterly ineffecti securing the border, it is designed to fail. mathematically, the chances that this bill has ofassi the house of representatives and those chances are 0.00%. there is, however, a bill that the border and would do so right no it would put real penalties in place to end catch release. and to defund the ngo's are a critical part of the human trafficking ne that bill is hr2 and hr2 has already passed the house of representatives. i'm proudo lead hr2 here in the senate. if the democrats wanto do the responsible thing that would

ache border, we would pass hr2. but instead the democrats deliberately want thisorde crisis to continue. every single democrat member of this body and we know this very one of them has voted over and over and over again against policies to border. when joe biden came into office he inherited the lowest rat of illegal immigration in 45 all president biden had to do is nothing, just don't screw it up. instead he deliberately broke the system and made three decisions his first week of office that caused this crisis. number one, he immediately halted construction of the border wall. number two, he reinstated the disastrous policy of catch and release, the policies the democrats now want to put into federal law and number three, he pulled out of the incredibly successful remain in mexico agreement. what had produced the lnt

rate. we went from success at the border the worst immigration in our nation's history. over 11 million illegal immigrants have come into thisye democrats. it is an invasion. 's largerer population of more than half of our states. on earth would the democrats turn a blind eye to the people who are suffering and dying? to the body bags, 853 migrants to died last year c illegally. why would they turn a blind eye to the children abused by human blind eye to the women hey sexualitily assaulted by the traffickers? why would they turn a blind eye to the 100,000 americans who

died from a drug overdose? to the children murdered by eye those they're releasing. every one of these million as democratic voters. and it's fine for the people to suffer and die. in just nt i'm going to propound a unanimous request to take up hr2, and when we do, all democrats have to do for this to pass is nothing. just likebin, all joe biden had to do at the beginning of his presidency to not b border was nothing, just keep in place the policies that were working. when i ask for unanimous consent to pass this bill, if

o nothing, it will pass the senate and go immediately to president bi he could sign it into law. i'm going to predict right now we are going to hear two magic words from the democrats, we are going to the words, i object. because they object to securing the border. t t stopping this invasion. they object to standing up to thecartels. they object to protecting the american people. but before i do that i to yield to my colleague from kansas, senatormarshall. >> mr. president, from kansas. thank you, mr. president and i texas for leading the charge up here to secure our border. since day one, joe biden's operational control of our nation's border, exploiting every weakness and pushing deadly fentanyl into our communities, killing over 30 americans every day. i rise today to join my gu in calling for unanimous consent for hr-2 thec

ago, languishing here on this side of the capital, waiting for a hearing and waiting for a vote. and time after time, the president and his us that our national security is an afterthought. unprecedente times. under thispresident's watch, with 11 million illegal aliens that were u.s. soil and instead of taking any real measures to address the crisis, he's doubling down. with just sixil the election now, the left wants you to believe they have suddenly to the border crisis they created. and the ns this week, we'll see the democrats bait and switch tactics, and i want the americans to watch what the majo this administration do, not what they say. they have no serious solution. they know it, and tt's the

obvious that it's politically motivated. due to the border crisis. even a state likean is a border state. fentanyl is flooding the mm across the state, climbing a life almost every day and leading cause o among young adults in america. joe biden's border crisisedn ov terrorists being apprehended in the past year for the southern additionally, 35,000 chinese nationals and from countries like iran, afghanistan, syria, crossed our southernborder. we're in a sad state of affairs when feign adversaries are paying closer attention to the vulnerabiti borders than the president of the united states. even our own fbi is sounding larm warning that because of this invasion we're at high

the coming month and i stand for a clear message forhis chamber. it's time to do what is right for the american not politically motivated messaging that's not sincere to the people, who have been victims of the biden administration's lawlessness. mr. president, we have a solution to secure our borders t' pass hr2. this legislation tightens asylum standards and it builds a while and increases■h patrol agents and ends catch and release. it passed the house over a year ago, majority leader refuses us to take a vote in if senate democrats were truly serious about securing our borders and enforcing the rule of lg our nation's sovereignty, they'd stop wasting time andp hr2 today. without secure borders, we cannot ensure our nation's safety. this nationa unprecedented and o

it immediately. erve t feel safe in their own homes. this half baked so-calledill is laken riley and her familynd every other citizen victimized by crimes from someone should not be in this country. even the lead democrat architect of the scalled border bill has said flat-out, this legislation does not close the border. you can quote him. it does not close the border. need to hear to see how fast and loose the democraticty is willing to play with our national security. the candidates you have in und political life support and no grand standing in washington this weenge that fact. i'd like to yield back to thena. >> senator from texas. >> mr. president, now i the moment when we will discover

whether or not the senate will passeal and strong legislation to secure the border. again, all the democts hav to do to send hr2 to the president's desk to be signed today is nothing. so let's lisn for those magic words, two magic words that would kill thisill "i object", let's hear if that's what the democrats have to say. consent that the senate proceed immedi consideration calendar 71, hr2. the bill be consideredea third time and passed and motion to reconsider be coer made and laid upon the table. >> is there objection? >> reserng >> the majority whip. >> and now for the rest of the story. last october president biden had major piece of legislation that provided an i assistancene in battle against putin, assistance to

israel and taiwan. itbipartisan, we thought. and republicans particularly in the senate said we're not going to consider any bill like that, unless you attach somethingo deal with our border, border security. how are we going to achieve that? they gave us a formula they wantedanted the lead negotiators, the senate republicans do one of our colleagues, senator james lankford of james lankford is a certified conservative, i'm sure he'd be happy to be called that and a person i respect a great deal, he is a man of principle, and he was in charge of negotiating on the republican side. so they ask us, who do you want the democrats to negotiate with? we said chris murphy of connecticut and kyrsten sinema, an independent frot to work in

october much last year and worked on this for weeks, months, went back and forth and it looked many times like it was hopele, couldn't reach an agreement. and lo and behold, they did. they came up with bill, a bill that massively changed the way we manage border. and brought it to the white house and said to joe biden in this bipartisan bill, this bipartisan bill, will y support it and he said i will. so we had a perfect form a bipartisan bill in a congress with a democratic senate and a republican house. and a president of the united states who says i'll sign it. wpened next? that's the best part. they went and asked the republicans, many of the republicans didn't take yes for an answer because wds bipartisan bill, the architect being the republican senator of their asking one man to go forward. want to guess who it was? donald trump. donald trump said no, i'm

sorry, i don't want to see t ab this issue as presidential campaign in the year 2024. i'm telling you right now, stop that bill. stop that bipartisan bill, don't vote f he said if you want a no, blame me, go ahead and blame me spping that bill. that's what he said. it's a quote onhe record and i saw him saw it and most of the republicans except a handful on the other side of aisle decidedhe lankford bill was no longer acceptable ru said it was not acceptable. the bill died and didn't go forward andor we know that the reality is, any immigration bill a chance need to be bipartisan. this bill would prohibit funding for processing duals who arrive at our borderswe enter. the bill for fun processing

between our is would essentiall an open border in between ports limit of use of parole programs for administrations, republicans and democrats, have relied on for emergencies. i'm proud to help -- i'm proud to represent the city of chicago. a part that is called ukrainian village, it's to the north. en to their churches, schools and bakeries as you i like that section of chicago and a lot of ukrainian americans live there. when we decided to help the refugees from the ukrainian war under president biden and others, we said that we would give them an opportunity to come to the safety of the united states while the war was pending. in the city of chicago estimate that 36,000 ukrainians came to chicago. we basically said to them, if you can find a to

sponsor you, we'll give you a work permit whilefrt is in your country. they were absorbed into the economy without a ripple. they're hard working people, good people and accepted in churches and schools and their kid went to school there and they reallyuted to the chicago scene, they've done a great job. while the authority of aesidt l that decision for ukrainian refugees isem this bill. this authority has been relied on by the executive decades in emergency situations. the evacuations of hundreds of thousands in the 1970's and iraqi curd kurds in the 1990's would be eliminated by this bill. the partisan legislation also includes many provisions that are completely unrelated to n to this urity. one. how about this? want to put this in a

comprehensive border bill. prohibit fund being used by the department of homeland security to purchase electric vehicles for the agency's law is that al about? this bill wouldls impose mandatory electronic employment verification known as■/e-verify on every sector of the american economy. and a meeting in office with a person representing farm carolina. the state of north you know what percentage are farm workers working in america today, going out and harvesting crops and f vegetables, you know what percentage are uncu 50%. 50% are undocumented today. , mandatory e-verify and would include the agriculture industry and these are undocumented 50% of agriculture workers would be unable to work. what would that do to our food supply chain? i will tell it would come

to a dramatic halt and increase food prices. he t, this provision by the junior senator from texas would raise food prices on american families so bipartisan opposition to in in the house representatives. under close scrutiny this bill is not a serious effort to secure our border. it would harm. and thearou have worked to move us in the right direction and we had an opportunity to vote on legislation, it would have actually helped us on the border though i had some concerns about it, i thougt was a genuine bipartisan effort i could support. disappointed, but hardly surprised the vast majority of my republican colleagues, senat from texas, who making this motion today, with the bipartisan bill with james

lankford on the republican side rejected. it's no surpriseo me that the junior senator did that. the only time run a bipartisan immigration bill to the floor, he did that, too. and senator lankford of oklahoma enforced by the national bde the union that representatives patrol. we can only fix our broken immigration system, only if it on a bipartisan basis. nobody their way here, it's compromise. it's clear the republicans want to maintain the crisis at the border to score political points for theirandidate for republican. and it won't address challenges, let's work together on a bipartibasis. let' start with the lankford bill and the opp

on the floor. if you want to change it, let's amend it and let's start with the bill we agreed would be the starting point not long ago before donald trump made the pronouncement. one that addresses the needs. economy, and provides a path for citizenship for workers and to our nation'slegacy, and harbor those fleeing from their lives. the american peopleed of partisan bickering over immigration. they want us to support our economy,nd our principles. proudly, i object. >> the objection is heard. >> mr. president. >> senator from texas. >> what i'd likeo say i'm surprised, but i'm not. it is worth thougheá pausing to reflect both what the from illinois said and what he didn't say. what he didn't say, he didn't dispute the point i made about

this democrat bill they're having a show vote on later this week. he didn't dispute that this bill codifies catch release, that it puts into federal statute joe biden's lawless praic releasing illegal immigrants when they're apprehen he dn't dispute that. he didn't dispute that this bill would 000 illegal immigrants a day, 1.8 year forever. he didn't dispute that either d bill would give illegal immigrants who are apprehended immediate work permits, didn't dispute that. he didn't dispute that this bill would give many of them taxpayer-funded lawyers and he also didn't dispute a point i've made other times although t just make it, that it uldive to the ngo's it would fund those trafficking millions into this country. he didn'tispute any of that.

he said the standard democrat line which is trump, trump. trump is the bad guy. and i get in democrat circles trump is bogeyman. but there's a simple fact when donald trump was in the white n he was actually working to secure the border, we had the lowest rate of immig years. when joe biden and the democrats arecharge, we have the highest rate of illegal immigration in american history. this is a fact. and all the politic and mirrors from the democrats can't hide that fact. but it's also interesting what did say. he gave the epic words about w and he's our country was built by legal immigrants. by people following theay. my father came as an immigrant ba.

there is a right way to come following the rules. i found it striking though that when he was saying how much chicago loves illegal immigrants, that he somehowd th chicago has declared an emergency because of the crisis of illegal immigrants flooding into the city of chicago. illegal immigrants taking resources from the residents of chicago. being housed in chicago o'hare we're seeing illegal immigrants in places like new york city put in pubc schools and throwing americans out of their facilities. the mayor of new york city, again a liberal of chicago has illegal immigration is a crisis that's destroying new york city. and yet, senator durbin told us essence the democrats are the party of openborders.

he said farm workers, we can't get anyoneork on the farm unless we have the open borders, apparen i democrats' view americans are lazy and don't want to work and the only way to grow our food is to open our borders to a full on invasio and listen, if some people have to die, if people have to get murdered by criminals and gang bangers releasedy democrats, day after day after day, that's an acceptable price forhe democrats. because you listen to his criticism of hr2, you know what he said? well, the people who are here illegally, they wouldn't be able to work. my god, it would stop illegal immigration. his objection. that is the democrats' objectio they object to this bill because iul what they say they want to do and they wa

joe biden could secure the toda he broke the border by unilateral action, nothing prevents him from reversing three decisions, from ending catcnd release, he won't do it and he doesn't want to do it and everyocrat in this chamber supports those open border cies. i'm going to close by observing the very real victims of the democrats' open border policies. there are some democrat policies that are victimless. this is not one of them. we've heard a lot about laken riley, but it's worth reflecting what exactly happened with her because the from venezuela illegally and we caught him. we had him. he was apprehended in el paso, texas, all joe biden had to do was follow the if he'd followed the law, what would he have done with anlmmig venezuela? he would have put him on a plane and flown him back. but he didt do that because joe biden and the democrats

decided they want open borders, insteaillegal immigrant. they let him go. what did he do? he went to new york city and we caught him again, he committed crime. this time he endangered the safety of a child andk city caught him arrested him and what did new york have to do? thehad to do is follow the law and put him in jail. now what? if they' that, laken riley would be alive. if joe biden and the democrats followed the laken riley would still be alive, but new york city is a scty so they let him go, again. and therer came down to georgia and laken riley, a beautiful 22-year-old woman, a nursing student. she went out jogging for whate beautiful day and this murderer, this illal immigrant that democrats released over and over and over again, picked up a brick and beat her to death. mr. presideg

every week. another name you d't hear democrats say is jeremy kaseris. a beautiful 2-year-old boy murdered inri georges county maryland a few miles from where we are right now byl joe biden and the democrats released and i want to finally point, mr. president, to a 15-year-old girl in your home e. boston, massachusetts. administration allowing a completely open border and releasing illegal that are apprehended, but they are flying hundreds o thousands of illegal immigrants directly home countries into america. and in this case, the biden administration flew an illegal immigrant from haiti to bo massachusetts. he didn't try to cross illegally, the biden administration said ce on, get on an airplane, we'll bring you to boston. now whad in boston? he's been arrested now for

violently raping a 15-year-old girl with mental disabilities. this is sick, this is grotesque and this is happening day after day after day. and we could stop it. the democra is i object. and another american is going to be killed the weekafter, the week after, the week after and the democrats all in the name ofower are perfectly fine with it. the good news is, an election is coming. and in january, 2025, with a new administration we'll solve this problem. we will secure the bord, we will stop this invasion and wel protect the american people. i yield the floor. ♪♪ >> since in partnership with the cable industry, c-span

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