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Speaker 1 is accused of spreading a false claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio abducting and eating pets. Speaker 1 responds that city officials haven't said the claim is false, only that they lack evidence. Speaker 1 states that constituents have reported firsthand and secondhand accounts of these events. Speaker 1 says the town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants, leading to increased healthcare and housing costs, as well as a rise in communicable diseases like HIV and TB. Speaker 1 asserts that the media only cares about the issue because it was turned into a meme about cats, highlighting the media's failure to address the consequences of Kamala Harris's border policies.

The speaker doubts the Democratic convention will win new voters, believing it caters to their base instead of recruiting new people. The speaker feels the Democratic party isn't interested in addressing important issues such as public safety, border security, and the handling of undocumented individuals. The speaker claims that 8,000,000 undocumented individuals were allowed in under Kamala Harris's leadership.

The speaker claims the law allows rounding up and deporting people without needing to show evidence in court. They assert the country needs this because millions of unvetted and unchecked people were allowed into the country, many of whom were criminals from jails, prisons, mental institutions, and gangs. The speaker alleges there are 11,088 known murderers in the country, with at least half having killed more than one person. They blame Biden for allowing this to happen and suggest investigating who operated the auto pen, implying that person was the real president. The speaker questions whether Biden had the authority to allow millions of people, including hardened criminals, into the country, causing tremendous damage.

The speaker states the U.S. federal government is the world's largest child sex trafficking organization. They claim that under President Biden's open border policies, the U.S. has experienced the largest mass invasion in history, costing hundreds of billions of dollars and resulting in a significant demographic shift. The speaker asserts that Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas intentionally weaponized illegal immigration to transform America, leading to a surge in child trafficking. They state that over 550,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) will have been lost by the end of the current administration, compared to 30,557 UACs accounted for during President Trump's last year. The speaker claims that HHS and ORR admitted to losing contact with over 85,000 UACs in 2023, a number that an inspector general later revised to over 320,000. They allege that DHS, HHS, and ORR created policies to expedite the movement of UACs to unvetted sponsors, resulting in children disappearing into labor and sex trafficking. The speaker's research indicates the federal government knowingly facilitated these criminal acts.

Speaker contends that current policy endangers public safety and that enforcement priorities are misaligned. The remarks center on immigration enforcement and its perceived consequences for communities. The speaker asserts: 'What ICE is doing is not making us safe.' They add: 'The Trump administration is treating immigrants generally, undocumented immigrants specifically as criminals.' They conclude with: 'But I remind people, being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime.' The statements underscore a distinction between immigration status and criminality, and frame immigration policy as a safety issue rather than a question of criminality. Overall, the message challenges conflating undocumented status with criminal intent and calls for a reevaluation of enforcement approaches.

The speaker claims the incoming administration wants to rectify abuses by enforcing immigration law, stating that those who entered illegally should leave. They allege the administration is stopping deportations. The speaker asserts that, according to the courts, it is lawful to be unlawful if you're Joe Biden, but unlawful to be lawful if you're Donald Trump.

Most Americans believe the administration is failing on the border issue as the number of people attempting to cross the southern border is at a record high. The speaker acknowledges the broken immigration system and emphasizes the need for a safe and humane border policy in the short term. They also highlight the importance of addressing the root causes of migration in the long term. The speaker urges Congress to take action and stop playing political games, encouraging them to be part of the solution.

The speaker claims that 13,099 murderers and 16,000 rapists have been let into the country. They state that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's customs and border protection have allowed 425,000 people into the country in the last 4 years. The speaker asserts these individuals are committing crimes against Americans. They question why the media does not discuss individuals killed by illegal immigrants, alleging the administration's own accounting confirms 13,099 murderers have been let into the country.

I'm not as eloquent as my colleagues, but politicians voting for this bill own the consequences. American people expect us to fight, not just slow down the country's destruction. We need to pick principled fights, like stopping the border invasion. To the American people: pay attention and stop sending politicians who talk one way and vote another. I'm a strong no on this bill.

The speaker presents a hypothetical scenario of an illegal gang member arriving at the U.S. Southwest border during the Biden-Harris era in 2023. He traveled with assistance from taxpayer-funded NGOs and, after being encountered, was released into the interior with a notice to appear in immigration court and a work permit. The individual files a bare-bones asylum application that is described as frivolous. Because the immigration court backlog is nearly 4,000,000 cases, the case would take years to adjudicate. In the meantime, the person would relocate to a major city, receive taxpayer-funded benefits, potentially commit crimes, be protected by sanctuary city leadership, and be defended by Democrats who allegedly say immigration laws are too harsh. The asylum claim would be denied by an immigration judge years later, followed by appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, then to a federal court of appeals, all taking months or years and expending extensive federal resources. The speaker claims this illustrates a broader pattern in what he calls “open borders” policies and a system that wastes federal resources on frivolous claims. The speaker introduces the bill: the Expedited Removal of Criminal Aliens Act. It aims to prevent criminal aliens from exploiting the asylum system and to ensure quicker deportation. It states that foreign nationals convicted of certain crimes are ineligible for immigration relief, must be detained, and deported quickly. The speaker notes that decades of immigration law already authorize a more efficient process to remove certain dangerous criminal aliens through administrative or expedited removal, particularly for aggravated felons, with due process upheld in federal appellate courts. The bill would expand categories of criminal aliens who may be placed in removal proceedings when in criminal custody and authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to place additional criminals in expedited removal proceedings. It would allow DHS to fast-track deportation for aliens who are not lawful permanent residents and who are part of a criminal gang, transnational criminal organization, or foreign terrorist organization, or who have been convicted of dangerous crimes. The speaker then lists the specific crimes that would trigger eligibility under the bill: any felony; any misdemeanor against a member of a vulnerable group; assault on a law enforcement officer; sexual offenses; domestic violence; stalking; crimes against children; sex trafficking of a minor or sexual abuse of a minor; activities involving exploitation of minors or violations of protective orders. The “vulnerable group” includes children under 16, pregnant women, individuals with severe physical or mental disabilities, and seniors over 65. The speaker cites polling: 78% of Americans support deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes, including nearly 70% of Democrats; 56% support deporting all illegal immigrants, with 36% of Democrats agreeing. He contrasts these views with what he claims were Democratic actions during the previous administration: high border encounters, 8,000,000 illegal entries (including 2,000,000 gotaways), hundreds on the terrorist watch list encountered and released, and a record immigration court backlog. He accuses Democrats of inaction on border security and comprehensive immigration reform, citing several bills the House allegedly passed or votes by Democrats against, including bills on border security, identity theft, driving-while-illegal offenses, and increasing penalties for felons, as well as naming acts after victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens. He concludes by arguing that the American people rejected the Democratic approach and gave Congress a mandate to secure the border and reform the immigration system, and asserts that the expedited removal bill moves toward that goal.

6 Democrats voted against a bill because Donald Trump preferred to campaign on the problem rather than solve it. The speaker believes the American people want solutions and a president focused on fixing issues, not playing political games. The bill in question would have allowed 1,800,000 illegal immigrants into the country annually, which many conservatives opposed.

The speaker states that an historic flood of undocumented immigrants crossed the border during the first three years of the administration, with arrivals quadrupling from the last year of President Trump. The speaker asks if it was a mistake to loosen immigration policies. The other speaker responds that the policies proposed are about fixing a problem, not promoting one. The first speaker reiterates that the numbers quadrupled. The other speaker claims that they have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half, as well as the flow of fentanyl by half, but that Congress needs to act to fix the problem.

Immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than natural-born citizens. Statistically, a town or neighborhood is safer with immigrants because they commit violent crimes less often than people born in the United States. The speaker objects to the bill, stating it feeds a false narrative that the country should fear families coming to the United States fleeing economic desperation, violence, terror, or torture in search of a better life.

Speaker critiques the New Way Forward Act, a House bill sponsored by 44 Democrats including Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; at about 4,400 words, “almost exactly as long as The US constitution.” It would “entirely remake our immigration system with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move to The United States and settle here permanently with immunity.” The promoting document states: “Convictions should not lead to deportation.” The bill aims to “break the, quote, prison to deportation pipeline,” eliminating “crimes of moral turpitude” and the category of aggravated felony as deportation triggers. Under the bill, there would no longer be any crime that automatically requires deportation, and “falsifying a passport would be made immune from deportation no matter what.” It also “decriminalizes illegal entry” and calls criminalizing illegal entry “white supremacist.” It creates a pathway for those previously deported to return—“the right to come home”—with DHS paying for flights; tickets could cost about a billion dollars, and “free health care” for those criminals. The speaker claims it would invert every assumption.

To pass my amendment, the Senate must remove Democrat leaders blocking it. I propose a vote on whether American taxpayer money should be used to fly illegal immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti into the US. President Biden has secretly flown 320,000 illegal aliens into Blue City airports in 2023. Vote against me to stop this practice. Time has expired.

The speaker claims the Biden administration, led by Secretary Mayorkas, intentionally flew illegal aliens into the U.S., escorted them across the border, and provided them with parole, work permits, Social Security numbers, and access to voting. The speaker alleges this was a deliberate scheme to enable illegal aliens to receive government benefits, become dependent on welfare, and participate in U.S. elections. The speaker asserts this is an attack on democracy by the Democrat party, similar to California's sanctuary state policy of refusing to hand over illegal alien criminals to ICE. They claim California is releasing criminal illegal aliens back into cities, allowing them to re-offend, which the speaker believes is a criminal violation of U.S. laws and one of the most heinous things they have witnessed.

- Speaker 0 states that criminals will be deported and that entering the US illegally increases the likelihood of being caught and sent back. They describe these actions as lawful and representative of the approach taken by every Republican and Democratic president for the past fifty years. - Speaker 1 asserts the need for tough conditions: people should be told to come out of the shadows, and if they have committed a crime, they should be deported with no questions asked; they will be removed. - Speaker 2 addresses widespread concern among all Americans about the large numbers of illegal aliens entering the country. They claim the jobs held by these individuals might otherwise be occupied by citizens or legal immigrants, and that public services used by them impose burdens on taxpayers. The administration is described as having moved aggressively to secure the borders by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, and by borrowing welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the upcoming budget, there will be efforts to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, and to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. - Speaker 2 concludes by emphasizing that we are a nation of immigrants, but also a nation of laws. It is described as wrong and self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the abuse of immigration laws seen in recent years, and there is a stated commitment to doing more to stop it.

According to the speaker, a new DHS report indicates that 325,000 migrant children are missing and have been trafficked into the country, possibly into sex slavery, or are dead. The speaker believes Hamas has little respect for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. The speaker claims that most of the hostages taken by Hamas are dead, which is why Hamas is not negotiating. The speaker asserts that if Joe Biden and Kamala were feared and respected, Hamas would not have killed the hostages or attacked. The speaker also claims that Iran was broke when they were president.

The speaker asserts that 1.4 million undocumented immigrants are currently enrolled in the Medicaid system. This number, the speaker claims, is equivalent to the population of Hawaii or New Hampshire. The speaker states that Medicaid is intended for pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, the elderly, and low-income families, and that undocumented immigrants are sharing these resources with qualified Americans. The speaker supports the president's plan to remove undocumented immigrants from Medicaid, questioning why there is outrage over this decision when Americans who have contributed to the country are also in need. The speaker predicts that people will continue to be upset because President Trump will be re-elected.

The negotiation for Ukraine funding did not include a path to citizenship, which has been a failed strategy for the Democrats for 30 years. This strategy has not delivered for the undocumented Americans in the country.

The speaker asserts that the Trump administration's immigration policy treats immigrants like criminals. They claim America is too great to fall prey to Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda. The speaker advocates for restoring basic humanity to the immigration system, starting with repealing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 through the "Neighbors Not Enemies Act," with the goal of ending what they describe as this xenophobic law.

The speaker argues that in the District of Columbia there is almost no evidence supporting the efficacy of violence interrupters. They claim that one city council member has been indicted for accepting bribes from a violence interruption organization, and they state they can name at least a half a dozen suspects who have been arrested for murder, gun charges, drug charges, and other violence charges who have been paid by violence interruption organizations. The speaker characterizes violence interruption in DC as a grift and contends that tax dollars are funneled into the hands of criminals through these programs. They express a stance that money should not be spent on violence interruption in the District of Columbia, asserting that there is absolutely zero proof that it works or that it has any level of efficacy whatsoever.

The speaker claims the U.S. president has fabricated a border crisis. They assert the president has stalled the government and harmed its workers for a "vanity project" called the wall. The speaker states this is a distraction from genuine problems.

Joe Biden's policies are allowing a record number of illegal immigrants to enter the US. These immigrants, along with their future children, will become automatic US citizens and have access to welfare, healthcare, voting rights, and other government benefits. This policy is seen as a reward for breaking US laws and is drawing more illegal immigrants to the country. The speaker believes that this policy is based on a historical myth and a misinterpretation of the law. They argue that it is attracting criminals and people with mental health issues. The speaker plans to sign an executive order to end automatic citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and to stop birth tourism. They aim to secure the borders, deter illegal immigration, and prioritize America's interests.

The speaker stated to the committee that the Biden administration let unaccompanied minors into the country without keeping track of them. The administration provided these children with a hotline to call if they had trouble with their sponsor families. The speaker claimed that 65,000 calls to this hotline, which was designated to protect these children, went unanswered.