titles of Distinction he is the prince of plastics the maven of manufacturing The Connoisseur of cheese curds uh he is also uh among other things someone who's identified himself as uh the chancellor of charts showing the profound depth of our border security crisis he's been working on this ever since he first became the chairman of the homeline security committee back in 2015 he's built on these charts and he's built on them in a way that has resulted in them Catching Fire you'll now see uh politicians all over the country at every level of government and I mean every level of government utilizing his charts because they're best the best in the business let's hear from him now I thank my colleague from Utah I was not aware of all those titles but I I'll accept them uh if we would have had a trial and it's travesty we have it I mean there's done there's been great Damage Done to our constitution to this institution by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle because they didn't want the American people to see this now I've described this chart had we had a trial this would have been the irrefutable DNA evidence that proved the crime there's no way you can take a look at the history of illegal entering this country and not recognize was happened what has happened under the Biden Administration under secretary morcus is nothing less than a utter catastrophe yesterday I spent about 10 15 minutes on the floor going through the history the cause and effect that this chart shows but what I really want to point out today is what the Democrats did not want us to reveal de because what this chart shows is that this was purposeful this was willful President Biden secretary Mor orcus our Democrat colleagues here in Congress in the Senate they want an open border they caused this crisis that this didn't just happen this was a game plan that they implemented they aided and embedded all the damage all the destruction all the crimes that result of this they have aided and embedded it but this chart does shows the the lawlessness started back in 2012 under the Obama Administration under the deferred action for childhood arrivals this took prosecutorial discretion which is again I'm not a lawyer not a prosecutor but I believe that's supposed to be applied on a caseby casee basis President Obama took prosecutorial discretion and granted it to hundreds of thousands of people that is what has sparked every surge in illegal immigration since that point in time I used to have a chart that just showed uncompany children and prior to the DACA it was maybe two three 4,000 uncompany children per year that our federal government had to account for and had to deal with in 2014 because of DACA we encountered 69,000 uncompany children 69,000 and even back then President Obama when his Department of Homeland Security his customs of border control were dealing with 2200 illegal immigrants being encountered per day he declared that a humanitarian crisis 2200 people a day and by the way I went down to McAllen Texas with a bunch of democrat colleagues in February 2015 during this Surge and people were singing the Praises of CBP of kind of skirting bureaucratic rules and setting up a Detention Facility they would protect children they use chainlink fences again we were singing their praises Democrats were singing the praise of CBP a few years later when President Trump had to deal with the crisis again sparked by the unlawful doca memorandum all of a sudden Democrats were saying it was kids in cages do you notice a double standard I won't go through all the history but I will point out president Trump because the reality situation was we were letting children in we couldn't detain them you had the Floy interpretation that said that children even accompanied by their parents couldn't be detained people around the world noticed that so they started coming they started creating fake families children being sold in testimony for my committee children being sold for $81 to create a family a little boy was found abandoned in a field of 100 degrees temperatures he'd already been used he created that family the other people got in and they just left him there the only identification was a phone number written on his shoe President Obama Secretary of America said they had to undo all of President Trump's successful border security provisions because it said those were inhumane there's nothing Humane about facilitating the multi-billion dollar business model of some of the most evil people on the planet the human traffickers the sex traffickers the drug traffickers how many overdose deaths have we experienced throughout America because of this open border policy there's nothing human about that when President Trump faced his speak is is a sharp sharp rise but a sharp fall in May of 2019 almost 4800 people entered this country illegally but president Trump did something about it he used what the Supreme Court said in the 2018 decision our existing law that exuded Defence to the president so even though that presidential Authority had been weakened somewhat by the flor's reinterpretation of that settlement even with that weakened Authority president Trump took the bull by the horns Institute to remain in me Mexico safe third world countries had to threaten the president of Mexico with with tariffs so he' cooperate but in 12 months president Trump went from his Peak to his trough a little more than 500 people a day entering this country now it's interesting about this chart that was again April of 2020 why did the why did the numbers go up pretty simple explanation that was in the midst of presidential campaign in every Democrat presidential candidate pledged that they would end deportations they'd give free health care and the world took notice people started coming in in anticipation of President Biden taking office and then once President Biden took office the catastrophe began and again President Biden now he claims he doesn't have the authority no he has all the authority that President Trump had to close the border president B secretary morcus use that exact same Authority purposefully willfully to open up the border so President Biden didn't need more laws secretary Americus didn't need more laws to fix this problem they caused the problem they have the authority we would have been happy to strengthen the authority to overrule the floors interpretation they weren't asking for that all our Democrat colleagues wanted was political cover that's the truth so we went from humanitarian crisis under a bomb of 2200 people a day Trump had almost 4 800 people a day but he fixed it President Biden his record is 10,000 more than 10,000 people a day in December of last year 10,000 people during his entire Administration he's averaged 7800 people in this country illegally because he has welcomed them he's incentivized them he wanted an open border he caused this problem and our Democrat colleagues would not even listen to evidence would not let the house managers make their case of the lawlessness of the willfulness of the line Congress because they didn't want the American people to see this now I've shown this chart to secretary morcus I'll show it to him again tomorrow when he comes for our committee first time I showed this you know a couple years ago it looked almost as bad but I asked him secretary America I mean don't you recognize this is a crisis and this St he saying we've got a secure border wouldn't say it's a Christ would you at least ad me it's a problem no sander it's a challenge now I would view that as a lie I would have liked to have heard the evidence presented by the house managers of other instances where secretary America lied to Congress which again as I thought was definitely pointed out by senator from Louisiana isn't that a felony and doesn't peachman only have to be a Mis m misdemeanor again so there's there's so much wrong in what our Democrat colleagues do today by just sarily cavalierly dismissing these charges it's going to come back to haunt our country but my final point will be This Disaster it's on a chart it's numbers they're colors but the real disaster is with the individuals who've lost their lives who've lost loved ones the children who have been raped who've been caught in the crossfire the gang wars that's the real challenge or that's the real catastrophe that's the real problem the Democrats just today swept under the rug it's a travesty it shouldn't happened but we'll continue to prosecute this case right up until November grateful for those insights that we've had from our friend and colleague the distinguished senior senator from Wisconsin
