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It\\u2019s past time to open schools, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., says.

\\u201cThe percentages for teachers or students is really, really low,\\u201d Biggs says of the risk of contracting COVID-19. \\u201cIn Florida, they\\u2019re playing sports.\\u201d

\\u201cThe flip side of it, of course, is this isolation, this online learning, this basic lockdown for these kids is producing greater suicide rates, higher depression rates,\\u201d Biggs says. \\u201cAnd something like half of all the adolescents and young adults have experienced some suicidal ideation that they had never had before. That\\u2019s a result of these school lockdowns, which don\\u2019t follow the science and they don\\u2019t make sense.\\u201d

The third-term congressman from Arizona joins \\u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\\u201d to discuss reopening during the pandemic, as well as to weigh in on the crisis at the southern border.

We also cover these stories:

• The situation at the U.S.-Mexico border isn\\u2019t a crisis but a \\u201cfull-blown disaster,\\u201d Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says. 
• The Senate votes to confirm Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
• Arkansas is now of the most pro-life states in the nation.

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