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Glenn Grothman: I would like to discuss a few of the issues that the press should be covering in the next 6 weeks leading up to the…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2024
I would like to discuss a few of the issues that the press should be covering in the next 6 weeks leading up to the election but probably will not. The first one, one more time, is the border. We are waiting right now for the results to come in from the number of people who have crossed the border in August. However, we already know, despite what we hear from other people, that we have an all-time record number of people crossing into the southwest border in the first 11 months of the year compared to any year previously. That is 2.7 million people in 11 months. This is a dramatic increase not only over past years but over prior administrations. Before COVID, it was not unusual under the Trump administration to have 11,000 people cross the border, that is the difference between 11,000 and what worked its way up to 350,000. We had 243,000 this February, and even after the Biden administration weighed in and are bragging about something they finally did as we headed into the election, we were still at 154,000 in August, way more than what we saw, say, in a month in 2020 before COVID of 11,000. So we are already in the 15-times increase. The cost of this is, of course, monetarily high, although that is not the major concern, but whether it is paying for schools, paying for medical treatment, or paying for housing for people who right now do not have a job to pay for themselves is huge.…
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Glenn Grothman
Republican · Wisconsin
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Sep 25, 2024

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