RPA Weekly Recap | May 15, 2023 Happy Mother's Day from the RPA From our mothers to yours, we hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day this weekend! Take a look below at some of the other news from this past week, from the federal debt ceiling, to Title 42, to Republican happenings all around the state. "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." — Abraham Lincoln   Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) Discusses Latest News from Washington, DC, Included Debt Ceiling Negotiations Arkansas PBS | Steve Barnes Full Interview Here   Why the LEARNS Lawsuit is Utterly Silly Opportunity Arkansas | Nicholas Horton Full Article Here RPA Chairman Cody Hiland spoke at a fallen law enforcement officer memorial at the Arkansas State Police. You can read more hear. Attorney General Tim Griffin spoke last week about the importance of conservative lawyers engaging in the legislative process with the Republican National Lawyers Association's Arkansas chapter in Little Rock. Legislators in Benton County spoke last week about the 94th General Assembly at the monthly meeting of the Benton County Republican Committee.   Biden's Title 42 Disaster Last week Title 42 expired and Biden's border crisis is only going to get worse. What you need to know: Within the last week alone, Border Patrol has apprehended more than 10,000 migrants crossing the border illegally each day. These are the highest single day totals ever recorded. Already, we have seen over 6.3 million illegal border crossings under Biden. This includes the 1.3 million gotaways that have escaped past Border Patrol into the U.S. Border officials say that the official number of gotaways vastly undercounts the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S. Mexican cartels are smuggling fentanyl into the U.S. and “killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we have never seen before.” 2,848 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 13,639 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in March alone, with much more getting through. The amount of fentanyl seized in March is the equivalent of more than 645 million lethal doses. This has turned into a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are at capacity. As one Border Patrol source put it: “The dam is about to break.” Biden's idea of a solution is to send troops to the border to “primarily to do paperwork…and only for 90 days .” House Republicans passed the strongest border security bill the country has ever seen, which will: Increase the number of Border Patrol agents and provide bonus pay; Require transparency regarding illegal crossings from the Department of Homeland Security; Strengthen current law to protect unaccompanied children from human trafficking; End catch and release; Strengthen and streamline the asylum process. If Biden wants to end this crisis, he needs to secure the border, enforce the law, and reverse the policies he put in place that started this crisis in the first place. Tweet of the Week   Republican Party of Arkansas | 1201 W. 6th St, Little Rock, AR 72201 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!