Congressman Dale Strong spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to call for the Biden Administration to resume building the wall along the Southern Border with Mexico. This was the first speech that Strong has given on the floor of Congress.
Rep. Strong recently traveled to the border with House Committee on Homeland Security members to see the crisis firsthand.
“The Secretary of Homeland Security says that the American border is secure,” Strong said. “The American people know better.”
“While heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, and human smuggling are flowing into our country at alarming rates, America is under attack,” Strong said. “The problem is not with the laws. The problem is with this administration because they are not enforcing the laws that are on the books.”
“On our visit to the border, we met with the Texas National Guard, U.S. Homeland Security, [Customs and] Border [Protection] (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, and Texas State Troopers,” Strong said. “Not one of these agencies or officials could say that the U.S. border was secure. Not one.“
“During our trip, I was reminded that on his first day in office, the president terminated the emergency declaration at the southern border and halted border wall construction,” Strong stated. “Over the last two years, Customs and Border Patrol have encountered over 4.7 million illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. That doesn’t include the 1.2 million that have evaded border patrol.”
Strong has recently introduced legislation to require the administration to resume work on the wall on the southern border.
“My bill will resume border wall construction and ensure the president cannot withhold resources while sending our troops to the front lines.”
“I am proud to introduce this legislation and other measures to ensure that if the Administration expects our troops to defend our border,” Strong stated. “Then we expect them to provide every tool, resource, and means of support to each of the brave men and women protecting our homeland security.”
It has become almost standard practice for Republican members of Congress to go to the southern border and personally review the situation.
U.S. Senator Katie Britt has visited the border three times since her election.
“There is an unprecedented national security and humanitarian crisis at our southern border,” said Sen. Britt. “I am grateful to have this opportunity to see the problem in the Rio Grande Valley firsthand, ask tough questions, listen, and learn – so we can fight for the best possible solutions in the Senate. The number of Americans dying from fentanyl poisoning is equivalent to a commercial airplane going down in our country every single day.”
The Biden administration has deemphasized border security and has halted construction of the border wall even though the contracts had already been awarded and many of the materials for the wall had already been purchased.
Rep. Strong is in his first term representing Alabama’s Fifth Congressional District.
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