Glenn Grothman: “I know we have had a lot of people talking today on the issue of the shutdown. I thought I would like to give a little…”

“I know we have had a lot of people talking today on the issue of the shutdown. I thought I would like to give a little different talk, or a little bit of explanation, as far as what is going on here, to the American people. The first thing that offends me is when people imply that the position of the President is that he is anti-immigrant. Every year, in this country, we swear in 700,000 new people to become citizens of this country--700,000. On a per capita basis, that is, for example, twice what Germany swears in and over 50 times the number of people who become new Mexicans each year. We should not apologize for swearing in 700,000 new people, and President Trump has made no effort to reduce that amount. He is just saying people who want to come here illegally should get in line and be one of those 700,000. I also want to point out, in addition to that, we let in another million people every year, primarily because they are relatives of other people who are already here. We let in over 180 million people for other reasons, including about 70 million people, every year, who want to work here. There is no reason why anybody should, under any circumstances, as President Trump let's these things go on, say that he is anti- immigrant, or anybody who wants to build a wall is anti-immigrant, because that will not affect these very generous numbers. Now, let's look where America is compared to historically.…”