Rep Moses on Aid for U.S. Border

quite simply AJR 123 sjr 117 simply requests that Governor iers sent Aid and resources to the US Mexico border to assist with immigration efforts um maybe I should have included the president in that as well but as a state legislator this is what I can do this is pro-immigration that is lawful and orderly unlawful and the illegal immigration hurts legal immigration and our country as a whole and you guys just heard a story from the gentleman from the 32nd about his experience I'm going to talk a little bit about one that I had last summer that was quite impactful for me um a friend and constituent of mine invited me along for his wife's uh naturalization ceremony in Minneapolis um a friend of mine Isaac him and his wife Monica they own a appliance store actually in the uh gentleman from the 93rs district and he's a very outspoken uh conservative minded individual so he's got a lot of opinions on immigration while Isaac met his wife Monica well he was serving in the military uh in the Czech actually what's now the Czech uh but was Czech Republic so years and years ago Monica's lived in the US with her husband for about a decade and it took a little over nine years for Monica to get her citizenship going through all the legal process in the correct way to become a US C citizen um I'd never gone up to the immigration office in Minneapolis before and there was lines and lines of people that were excited and there for the ceremony and there was probably about half as many people in the room as we've got members in this body but people from all different backgrounds all different colors races religion you name it and to be there with my friend Isaac and his wife and their two teenage daughters to actually witness the legal immigration process work was was quite amazing and impactful and the tears that the family had when she actually got her citizenship and I am all for completely legal immigration following the process you know the other sides talked about we already have a process and procedure in place they are swamped if you talk to the customs and the immigration people that are out there they are tirelessly working to try and secure our borders but it's failing the system we have currently is not working the US is currently facing a crisis at the southern border due to Illegal immigration in December 20123 and I think one of the other reps already re uh referenced this but more than 300,000 migrants so essentially the city of Madison were apprehended in December of 2023 that is the highest month ever although I should check my numbers because I don't think it's going down this problem continues to get worse and worse cartels and coyotes are profiting from trafficking women and children across the border earning tens of millions of dollars weekly and I know that was referenced before but you know I think the gentle lady from the 78th me mentioned well who requested this I don't know about you but I'm out talking to my constituents and this is a real problem we've got human trafficking in our districts that is out of control and if you're not aware of it you're just not paying attention get out there and talk to people and see what's going on this is quite alarming as a father of four basically all teenage daughters this is very very concerning what's going on partially due to the open border that we have in this country and then you get into the fenyl epidemic we have fentel coming across the southern border this is a real problem this is not made up this is all we can do as a state legislature say hey Governor A's join the other Governors that have already sent support US Customs and Border Protection enforces immigration laws secures the borders and works tirelessly but like I said before they are overworked they do not have the resources currently States not on the southern border are even having issues just this morning I read about an encampment in New Hampshire how far away from the southern border do you have to get for this to be a problem we need to send resources we need to help then you started looking at other issues obviously recently I can even tie this to the hospital closure our public services are getting just compromised soaked they don't have the resources this influx of people coming across our borders is overwhelming our hospitals our Medical Systems our schools our communities you know obviously there's even Refugee resettlements which that's completely different than what we're talking about with this bill but our communities can't support all this going on we need better immigration policy obviously but this is designed this resolution says hey let's send help let's join those other states that have already sent resources our previous governor I have no doubt would have sent Resources by now this would have been dealt with so this is just a simple resolution saying hey Governor iers send help this vote should be as easy as one two3 on this and who is this who is this resolution for it's for the people of Wisconsin not Venezuela not South America it's for the people all people of Wisconsin so Mr Speaker the vote on this resolution is green as a spring day so with that the vote is green