rose, for five mr. ros mr.oecentl hea tt former chief of border patrol, recall ortiz, -- rau ortiz, never spokeo either president obama or the vice president and so-cled borde kamala -- cza can ma'ama har kamala harris, in the two years heed up secity a our southern border. in aent interview he said he never had a singl cversation with eithe of the he went on to say, quo, that's a problem. given that he commanded 21,000 border patrolmen. probm.gue it's more than a at the very least, it's indication that border security was never and has not been a priority for our cmander in chief. it's a b like abandoning a soldier on t battlefield. mr. speaker, becsef t policies of the bid administraon, ortiz had to'u endure an unprecedented sge of illegal immigration month after nth in his 2 1/2 years at the there were more than five llion illal immigra gotays during that/2 million his patrolmen seized morehan 50,000 pounds of fentanyl at the soutrn border by the timf retirement at the end ofas aut e messages to mexico, cena