Washington, D.C. - Rep. Barry Moore (AL-02) participated in the House Judiciary Committee's first field hearing of the 118th Congress titled "Biden's Border Crisis: Part Two." The hearing was held in Yuma, Arizona, where Moore and his Republican colleagues were able to observe Biden's border crisis firsthand. The hearing featured three witnesses: Jonathan Lines, a county supervisor in Yuma County; Sheriff Leon Wilmot; and Dr. Robert Trenschel, president and CEO of Yuma Regional Medical Center. Moore's questions focused on the humanitarian crisis created by Biden's border crisis, exposing the liberal myth that open border policies are compassionate. Moore discussed the high prices cartels are charging to extort vulnerable populations, including children, for border passage; the benefits, including cell phones, being issued to migrants paid for by American taxpayers; and the vast numbers of unaccompanied minor children our government has lost after transporting them to unverified and unvetted people and places in locations throughout our country. Highlights of Moore's remarks are below. The proportions of the open border-fueled fentanyl crisis: "In Alabama recently I was told that in Birmingham we seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in my entire state, so this may be affecting border communities, but it's a crisis for our entire nation." The wild sums of money cartels charge ferrying dangerous migrants across our border: "We actually seized some Chinese nationals, [said] a Sheriff's Department in Texas, and it was $80,000 each. Folks, they're not coming here to do us any favors, just so you know." The consequences of our unaccompanied minors policy: "We are actually, with taxpayer dollars, trafficking children, and we're paying to get them here on American taxpayer dollars, and putting them in God knows what and God knows where... We've lost 20,000 children. Mayorkas said himself in a hearing he does not know where 20,000 of these children are, and that's just staggering to me." |
