'Just Come On In': GOP Lawmaker Slams Biden's Border Executive Order That 'Doesn't Even Come Close'

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During remarks on the House floor, Rep. John Rose (R-TN) hammered President Biden's latest executive order aimed at improving immigration processes and border security.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, last week, President Biden signed an executive order to limit the number of

00:06asylum seekers that are allowed to enter the United States in one day.

00:11The number is 2,500.

00:13I have many concerns about the timing of this action and about the open border policies

00:18that created this mess, but I want to first address that number.

00:24If that so-called limit was enforced each day for a full year, 912,500 immigrants would

00:32still likely be admitted into the United States, and that's before all of the loopholes and

00:38exceptions in his executive order are even considered.

00:42This will drive the number even higher.

00:45The Biden administration would have you believe that this new policy will really crack down

00:50on the flow of illegal immigration into our country, but its effect will be marginal.

00:56At best, the policy will slightly downgrade the unmitigated catastrophe at our southern

01:02border back to a mere full-blown crisis.

01:06The move confirms what House Republicans have been saying for three years.

01:11President Biden created this border catastrophe by using his executive powers to reverse the

01:18Trump border policies that were actually working, like construction of a border wall and the

01:24Remain in Mexico policy, and the president could use these same executive powers to re-implement

01:31those Trump border policies to again make the border much more secure.

01:37But unfortunately, this weak effort doesn't even come close.

01:41President Biden's gross mismanagement of the border has sent a message to the entire world

01:45to just come on in.

01:47The result?

01:48More illegal immigrant encounters every month under this administration than the worst month

01:54under the previous administration.

01:56Under President Biden, there have been more than 9.5 million illegal immigrant encounters

02:03at our borders.

02:04More than 7.8 million of them were reported at the southern border alone.

02:10We know at least 1.8 million people have managed to evade U.S. border patrol.

02:17And over 350 people who have tried to enter the country also were on the terror watch list.

02:24And the administration isn't done setting records.

02:28So far this fiscal year, there have been a record-breaking 27,583 communist Chinese nationals

02:37encountered at the southern border.

02:39That's an increase of about 8,000 percent from just three years ago.

02:44From the deadly fentanyl that's flowing across the border to the cartels making record profits

02:50from human trafficking, this has had a devastating impact on countless men, women, and children.

02:57There are many human costs resulting from the open border.

03:01There's also an actual monetary cost of more than $150 billion each year, costing each

03:08U.S. taxpayer an average of $1,156 each year.

03:14The American people see this announcement for what it is, an election year public relations

03:19gimmick and a belated admission that there is indeed an unmitigated crisis at our southern border.

03:27Fortunately, the American people will have their own chance to secure the border this November.

03:33Thank you and I yield back.

'Just Come On In': GOP Lawmaker Slams Biden's Border Executive Order That 'Doesn't Even Come Close'

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