On July 10, 2014 Rep. John J. Duncan of Tennessee asked for and was granted permission to address the United States House of Representatives for one minute regarding the deployment of National Guard troops along the US/Mexico border:
“Mr. Speaker, we have a very sad human tragedy going on at our border, with many thousands of children coming to the U.S. from Central America.
Americans are the most generous, compassionate people in the world, but if we don’t secure our borders, we will destroy America as we have known it. There are probably several hundred million people who would come here in a short time, if we simply opened our borders.
We must have a legal, orderly system of immigration, and it must be enforced. Our entire infrastructure–our schools, our hospitals, our jails, our sewers, and so forth–just cannot take in hundreds of millions more people in a short time.
We need to immediately deploy our National Guard to secure our border, and we need to immediately change the laws, so that every unaccompanied child does not require a court hearing.
This is an emergency situation, Mr. Speaker. It does not require more money. It requires immediate action with funds that are already available”, said Duncan.
Source: Congressional Record http://thomas.loc.gov/
Rep. Duncan serves on the following committees and subcommittees:
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (Vice Chairman)