'The President Needs To Wake Up!': GOP Lawmaker Sounds Off On Biden's Border Policies

7 months ago

During debate on the House floor, Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) decried President Biden's border policies.

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00:00 The gentleman from New York is recognized for two minutes.

00:02 Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I thank my colleague for the opportunity to speak.

00:05 My colleagues across the aisle are spending a great deal of time

00:09 arguing against a piece of legislation they claim has no purpose and is meaningless.

00:15 It only denounces the policies of the Biden administration. Well,

00:19 the policies of the Biden administration are due denouncing. There is little question that if this

00:26 was a fire, the executive would send the fire department. If it was a hurricane, the executive

00:31 would send FEMA. But because this is a crisis of this president's making, he has chosen not to

00:37 offer any response, but to allow the crisis to continue.

00:43 I remind my colleagues across the aisle that, yeah, sure, the immigration system is broken.

00:48 I wasn't here to break it. A couple of my colleagues have been here long enough to fix

00:52 it several times over. But the law as it relates to securing our border is clear.

00:57 We are the legislature. We adopted the law. The president, the executive, has the responsibility

01:03 to execute the law. And instead, he has surrendered the southern border to drug cartels

01:09 who are not only trafficking deadly drugs, synthetic opioids and fentanyl, but trafficking

01:16 human lives. But my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are like some sort of delusional

01:21 Wizard of Oz. Pay no attention to the crisis at the border. Pay no attention to the chaos in our

01:27 cities. Pay no attention to the students taken out of schools so that cities like New York can

01:33 shelter immigrants that they, migrants that they welcome. Pay no attention to all of it.

01:38 Look over there, Donald Trump. Don't look behind the curtain, because you'll find that this president

01:42 with a stroke of a pen could re-establish the executive orders and take the emergency action

01:49 necessary to secure our border, protect our citizens and save lives. Instead, this president

01:57 has allowed a crisis and it is worth denouncing over and over and over again because it has caused

02:04 chaos, it has led to crime and the loss of lives, and it has fueled instability in our communities.

02:10 We know this as New Yorkers because we see it.

02:13 The gentleman has been recognized for an additional minute.

02:17 We know this as New Yorkers because despite the protestation otherwise, the state of New York has

02:24 opened its arms and then when thousands upon thousands of migrants find their way to the

02:29 city of New York and then relocated to other parts like upstate New York where I represent,

02:33 the state starts to complain. Enough is enough. The president needs to wake up and take this

02:39 crisis seriously. It is not progressive. It is cruel and he must take action. And yes,

02:46 His current policies are worth denouncing without a yield.

'The President Needs To Wake Up!': GOP Lawmaker Sounds Off On Biden's Border Policies

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