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Posted by
Press Office
on
January 23, 2012
House Republicans are hosting a digital fact check and social Q&A GOP.gov/SOTU in response to President Obama’s State of the Union (SOTU) message tomorrow night. Here’s what we have in store and how you can participate:
Republicans will be talking about House-passed bills that would create a better environment for private-sector job growth, and highlighting how the president’s policies have only made our economy worse. Click here to add tomorrow’s event to your calendar, and if you haven’t already, check out our promo video for GOP.gov/SOTU and share it with your friends. We look forward to hearing from you!
Posted by
Rep. John Boehner
on
May 20, 2009
The Associated Press reported today that the number of people trying to illegally enter the U.S. between Oct. 1, 2008 and May 15, 2009 along our border with Mexico has gone down by 27 percent. For the same period along our northern border, illegal entries were down 13 percent according to Customs and Border Protection officials. Since we know that many people want to be part of the blessings America has to offer, I think we can attribute these numbers to the hard work of our border patrol agents and to the preventative measures Republicans have worked to put in place on the border. We’ve doubled the number of border patrol agents over the last five years and better equipped them to do their job safely. We’ve built several hundred miles of the border fence, although we still have a ways to go before it’s completed. But bills like the Secure Fence Act of 2006, of which I was a co-sponsor, have been instrumental in making sure our immigration laws are enforced. |