Illegal Immigration - Border Crisis
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April 26, 2023
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement held a hearing today on "The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children.” The hearing was held to examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and how open-border policies enable the exploitation of those children.
April 19, 2023
H.R. 2640 will increase border security.
Washington, D.C. – H.R. 2640 passed the House Judiciary Committee today by a vote of 23 to 15. The Border Security and Enforcement Act is a comprehensive measure addressing illegal immigration and border security.
January 27, 2023
Representative Tom McClintock, CA-05, has been named Chairman of the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee in the 118th Congress. McClintock served as Ranking Member of the subcommittee in the previous Congress, earning a reputation as a fighter for border security and legal immigration.
September 21, 2022
When Donald Trump left office, we had restored operational control of our southern border. The wall was nearing completion. Court ordered deportations were finally being enforced. The Migrant Protection Protocols negotiated with Mexico had reduced the number of fraudulent asylum claims to a trickle.
All that Biden needed to do was to continue these policies. Instead, he reversed them on his first day in office. He ordered the border wall to be abandoned, leaving construction gaps that make it useless. He ordered ICE to cease enforcing the law. He ended Trump‘s remain-in-Mexico policy. And he sent a clear and unmistakable message heard around the world: America is now a nation without borders.
July 27, 2022
DHS Secretary Ali Mayorkas has repeatedly asserted – including in sworn testimony to this committee -- that the southern border is secure. This, of course, is a lie and not even a subtle one.
July 27, 2022
Eighteen months ago, we had achieved operational control of our Southern Border. The border wall was nearing completion. The remain in Mexico policy and enforcement of court-ordered deportations had slowed illegal migration to a trickle. American workers were finally seeing major wage gains and the gap between rich and poor in this country was finally narrowing.
All that ended on January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden cancelled the Remain in Mexico policy, ordered ICE to stop enforcing court-ordered deportations and cancelled the border wall, leaving construction gaps through which thousands of illegal immigrants pass every day.
July 14, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Congressman McClintock delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition to the Langevin Amendment to the NDAA.
November 9, 2021
President Biden hasn’t mentioned Afghanistan since he turned the phased, conditional withdrawal under Trump into an unconditional surrender to the Taliban. Nor has he yet found the time to see the chaos his policies have produced by collapsing our southern border.
November 4, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-04), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, introduced the Illegal Immigrant Payoff Prohibition Act of 2021. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan are principal co-sponsors. The legislation will prevent the Attorney General from making settlement payments to individuals and families who entered the United States illegally. It is a direct response to reports that the Biden Administration is proposing to pay as much as $450,000 per person to compensate families that unlawfully entered the United States.
October 14, 2021
Washington, D.C.- Rep. McClintock today sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers about alien encounters at the southern border and the security risks posed by the release of thousands of terrorists from Bagram Air Base combined with the porous southern border.