On the recordMay 17, 2022
It was a big day a couple of days ago because the new immigration figures came out for the month of April, and it is something that ought to be banner headlines in all the newspapers. I will report them. In April, 185,000 illegal immigrants entered the United States. Sometimes people talk about the number of contacts we have; some of the people turned around. Madam Speaker, 185,000, that is up from 152,000 in March. It is 185,000 this April; 66,000 last April; and two Aprils ago, under a different administration, it was under 6,000. Let me repeat: In April 2020, 5,700 people entered the country, and we didn't know exactly who they were; last April, 66,000; now, 185,000. In there, we have 8,600 unaccompanied children. People want to worry about families being broken up, that they will send them somewhere in the United States. But 8,600 children entered the country unaccompanied. In any event, if we have any newspaper people listening, they ought to report this as the banner headline tomorrow. ____________________
