Glenn Grothman: “I would address the same article that one of my Democrat colleagues mentioned earlier today about an article that was…”

“I would address the same article that one of my Democrat colleagues mentioned earlier today about an article that was published in The New York Times over the weekend addressing what is going on with a segment of some of the people who have come across the border inappropriately over the last few years. Now, things have changed with the parole policy. We don't know how that is going to shake out. We have multiplied by 11 or 12 times the number of people coming to this country illegally since President Biden took office. We have gone from about 20,000 people a month to just short of 240,000 people a month. Mr. Speaker, I will address a subset of that population, and that is the young children. Approximately 9,000 to 10,000 unaccompanied minors are coming across our border every month without either parent. What becomes of these 10,000 children every month who don't have either parent with them? Well, The New York Times found out what happens to some of them. They wind up working in very dangerous working conditions. That is what happens when you let people cross the border without their parents being able to look out for them. Mr. Speaker, 10,000 children left to cross the border unaccompanied. Others, like the little girl referenced in the article in The New York Times, came here with a relative she didn't even know before this--if he really was a relative. This is something that bothers the Border Patrol. Mr.…”